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Morning Futures Roundup
Will Bulls Regain Their Chocolate Cravings?
Fundamentals
Both bullish and bearish Cocoa traders had something to cheer about the past six weeks as a nearly $600 per ton rally from the May lows was followed by a quick $400 per ton decline the past several sessions. The results of these large opposing price trends may be a more subdued Cocoa market the next few weeks as traders reassess market fundamentals.
One of the biggest factors in the Cocoa market is the direction of the U.S. dollar especially against the British Pound. A stronger GBP/USD is normally a bullish factor for Cocoa prices and if one compares the September Cocoa Chart to the September British Pound Chart one will note that September Cocoa began its mid-May rally at the same time the September Pound broke out of its consolidation range to the upside. However once the Pound chart begin to move sideways, Cocoa prices fell. The recent sell-off has caused Cocoa butter prices to fall, making processors margins weak, which has hurt demand.
However, there are some concerns that mid-crop Cocoa production in the Ivory Coast, the world’s largest Cocoa producer, will come in smaller than expected, as heavy rains have delayed arrivals, which are down about 15% from this time last year. Last Thursday’s price reversal to the upside after making 1-month lows may signal that a near-term bottom may be in place as lower prices drew fresh buying to the market.
Technical Notes
Looking at the daily chart for September Cocoa, we notice the strong buying that occurred once prices attempted to test the 78.6% Fibonacci retracement level. The market is trying to remain above the 100-day moving average, which is used by many longer term traders as a key indicator to whether a market is in a bullish or bearish phase.
The 14-day RSI is struggling to get above the 50 level and the trend remains lower. Traders should watch the action in the U.S. Dollar as any signs of strength by the greenback could pull Cocoa prices lower. Support is seen at 2289, with resistance found at the 20-day moving average currently near 2645..
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City councillors want city police to outsource services, share staff with city, share dispatch centre with fire department 0
Mayor Daryl Bennett speaks at a meeting on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 when city council met with the consultants preparing the next city police business plan.
Contracting out certain services, using City Hall staff for work such as accounting and running a joint police and fire dispatch centre are ways the police force could lower its spending, city council members argued Wednesday.
Council continued its campaign to rein in what it has characterized as “unsustainable” increases in police spending during a special meeting to provide comments to consultants who are writing the Police Services Board’s next three-year business plan.
Policing cost increases have dramatically exceeded inflation and population growth, even while the amount of crime has been dropping, Coun. Bob Hall said.
“I know this is a larger issue, but somebody has to start ringing the bell,” he said.
Council gave the police service a 5.7% or $1.1-million increase in funding this year after police had originally asked for an 8.4% or $1.6-million increase.
The business plan will include recommendations on how to improve the delivery of police services, said Michael Mitchell, one of the consultants preparing the plan.
“In our experience, you can make changes that improve services with no additional costs,” he said.
Some changes could lead to no cost increases; some could increase revenues; some could help avoid cost increases; and some could increase costs, Mitchell explained.
The police board hired Mitchell, of MPM Consulting, and Maurice Hodgson, of Hodgson Associates, to prepare the plan.
Mitchell stood at the lectern in front of council throughout the 2 1/2-hour meeting, responding to questions and listening to comments. Hodgson sat nearby, occasionally offering an additional comment.
Police Services Board chairwoman Nancy Martin and Police Chief Murray Rodd didn’t attend the meeting.
While Rodd wasn’t in the council chambers gallery, he did have some input.
When Coun. Keith Riel raised concerns about the lack of downtown foot patrols despite a previous investment by the city to ensure that service was provided, Coun. Lesley Parnell typed a message on her BlackBerry. Parnell interjected when she received a response to the email.
There are two foot patrol officers right now, Parnell told council, but one has been pulled to Bolivar St. for a call and one has been assigned to watch the apartment building on Milroy Dr. that was damaged by a fire on Tuesday night.
She added that police had 25 calls in the cue waiting for response.
Hall wanted to know where Parnell got the information.
“I emailed the chief and he provided that information,” Parnell replied.
Council members need to go through the police board chairwoman to get information from the chief, according to the board’s rules and regulations, Mayor Daryl Bennett said.
Bennett, who is council’s representative on the board, has been criticized by the board for his conduct — but he hasn’t been allowed to take part in the discussions or be in attendance to hear the specific complaints.
The mayor has led council’s attempt to rein in police spending. He has gone as far as suggesting that the city could pursue splitting up the police service between the city and Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield Township to remove the township’s vote on the board as a way to gain more control over police spending.
The city pays about $20 million or about 90% of the force’s budget. The township pays less than 4% of the budget.
Council’s trying to balance the needs of the community, Bennett told the consultants.
“We’re looking at providing the best service we can within our ability to pay for it,” he said.
Mitchell assured council that he understood its concerns.
“Our mandate is to do something that is both practical and achievable,” he said.
But Mitchell argued there’s little optional spending in the police budget, meaning there’s little council or the police board can do to deal with police spending increases.
NOTE: Council’s attempt to get control of police spending increases, which have averaged about 7% a year over the last decade, has garnered support from a group of about 70 municipalities dealing with the same issue. Mayor Daryl Bennett revealed that the city has received a letter of support from the group.
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I’m a fan of age-old photography wisdom that’s still relevant today.
When I stumbled upon the book “Photography for the Professionals,” written by Robin Perry in 1976, I thumbed through the dusty pages. What I found surprised me, no different than this 1937 gem.
If age-old wisdom stands the test of time today, imagine future value? That’s something a new book won’t buy!
Despite being published over 37 years ago, the abundance of ‘golden nugget’ information relevant to today’s professional photographers inspired me to write this post for The Photo Life. Here are Ten Truisms from the book “Photography for the Professionals” that are applicable to today’s professional photographers.
Ten Truisms, 37 Years Later:
10. The key to success in photography (or anything else for that matter) is education.
As Mark Twain said, “Never let school interfere with your education.” Going into debt for photography school isn’t a sound investment. At all. However, self-improvement
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The Southern Amateur Football Association (SAFA) has announced the date for their respective All-Star and Championship Game. The league’s All-Star game, known as the Grand Bowl, has been scheduled for 1:00 p.m. on May 26, 2012. The Championship Game, known as the Superior Bowl, will be played later that day at 7:00 p.m. Admission to each game is $10.00 person, or $15 for both events. Children 6 & under are free.
Both games will be played in Port St. Lucie, Florida at South County Regional Stadium. South County Regional Stadium is located at 560 NW University Boulevard, Port St Lucie, FL 34986.
The SAFA is currently in the midst of their playoffs with two games remaining which will determine the matchup in the Superior Bowl. From the Colonial Conference, the Gainesville Gators will be taking on the Orlando Rattlers. The Sun Conference game features the South Florida Saints playing the South Florida Storm. Both games will be played on Saturday, May 12, 2012. For further information and directions to any of the games listed, please visit the SAFA website.
From the SAFA Mission Statement- The Southern Amateur Athletic Association is focused on becoming the best organized league of competition in the sport of American football at the adult amateur minor league level. It is our mission to serve our member organizations in the most ethical and professional manner possible in every aspect of our business operations by developing and implementing rules and guidelines to govern our league that promote fairness, good sportsmanship, integrity and honor among all who participate.
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They're all pretty typical thoughts for a 10-year-old boy.
Worrying about your mom isn't, though.
Eleven-year-old Ian DeLisle of Southern Pines penned these thoughts a year ago as his mother was beginning chemotherapy for breast cancer. They will be included in a "Share Your Story" publication that is being prepared by the CARE-Net program of FirstHealth of the Carolinas.
"You can see in the poem all of the different thoughts and emotions going on, the regular 10-year-old boy imagination, but also glimpses of the pain and worry about his mother," says Laura Kuzma, CARE-Net coordinator.
A program that pairs specially trained volunteers with Moore, Montgomery and Richmond County residents who have cancer, CARE-Net is currently collecting thoughts, poems, stories, photography and artwork from patients for the "Share Your Story" project. Patients' immediate family members as well as CARE-Net volunteers and oncology staff members can also submit items.
The "Share Your Story" materials will be published and then distributed to contributors, staff and the community at large. Categories include poetry, short stories, spiritual/inspirational thoughts, memoirs, personal essays, art and photography.
"Our patients exhibit such tremendous courage and hope and strength every day," Kuzma says. "We want them to share their stories and their spirit with those around them. Maybe their words and pictures can be an inspiration to those traveling down a similar path."
The CARE-Net staff will collect items for the "Share Your Story" publication until Sept. 1. Here are the guidelines:
-- Entries must be original and unpublished, and typed or neatly written.
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-- Each entry must have a cover sheet with a document title and category as well as the author's name, age, address and telephone number.
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Anyone wanting to submit a "Share Your Story" item should send it to Laura Kuzma, CARE-Net Coordinator, 150 Applecross Road, Pinehurst, N.C., 28374. Entries can also be delivered to Kuzma's office in the Oncology Department (lobby level) at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital.
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With over $2 million in live poker tournament winnings and an impressive online poker resume, Matt Marafioti is widely considered one of the better pro players out there. However, the Canadian’s name has been dragged through the mud over the past couple of days after an alleged Skype conversation between him and another player was leaked on the TwoPlusTwo forums.
The 2p2 thread begins with a posted Skype conversation (sent to poster via email) between Marafioti and a Swedish online poker player named Samar Rahman. This already leads people to jump to conclusions because Rahman has been accused of cheating players such as Patrik Antonius in the past through elaborately-placed computer viruses. But things get worse when the conversation alludes to hacking into other players’ accounts so Marafioti and Rahman can see opponents’ hole cards.
Seeing as how it’s possible to manipulate a Skype conversation before posting it to the internet, it’s tough to verify 100% accuracy in this matter. However, most people in the TwoPlusTwo thread feel Marafioti and Rahman’s conversation about cheating other players follows a realistic flow for an IM conversation.
Perhaps more damning are the character issues here because both Marafioti and Rahman are pretty questionable people. Marafioti has gained quite a bit of attention for his melodramatic twitter posts and incessant cursing while Rahman is rumored to be a skilled computer hacker – as mentioned before.
Of course, none of this is evidence that these two online poker pros definitely conspired to cheat people. However, it is worth mentioning that the TwoPlusTwo thread has been kept up, which means they either feel there is some validity behind the accusations or – at the very least – they believe the topic is worthy of discussion.
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Michael Phelps has won 22 Olympic medals, more than any athlete in Olympic history. He's been a part of more thrilling races than he can count, and he is arguably the best Olympic athlete ever.
So one would think it's hard to faze Phelps. But by Phelps' own admission, the Baltimore Ravens' win over the New England Patriots on Sunday did just that.
The Baltimore native and Ravens superfan was in Foxboro for the game, and he couldn't control his emotions as his team pulled away towards the end of the game.
"I went nuts," Phelps said in Baltimore's locker room after the game. "I was going crazy. I literally can't say it enough: this is the one of the coolest feelings I've felt in a long time."
At the end of the game Phelps and Baltimore Orioles star Adam Jones grabbed the Maryland flag and went running through Gillette Stadium, screaming and yelling in excitement.
Phelps, who has experimented with different styles of facial hair in recent weeks, was rocking a mustache, a trucker hat and a scarf.
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Alain Vigneault certainly sounded cocky and confident Friday. As this shortened training camp begins, the head coach of the Vancouver Canucks is evidently pretty certain his team will be getting a centre back in an impending deal most everyone in this city is anticipating soon.
Vigneault patted himself on the back for developing every player on his roster who has had any level of success, including the Sedins.
The man many of his former Montreal Canadiens players used to call Mr. Gant — short for arrogant — and who has GM Mike Gillis’s undying loyalty, certainly projected the good feeling a team needs heading into what the coach terms “uncharted waters.”
Nobody would feel that confident unless he felt he knew something, because if you look at the roster as it presently stands, there are nothing but question marks everywhere. Unless there are some subtractions and additions, there’s no doubt A.V. faces perhaps his most difficult challenge since taking this very demanding job seven years back.
Unless the Canucks do get that centre, there aren’t many attractive options to a team which alleges — verbally at least — that it wants to play an exciting, uptempo style. After the Sedin line, no matter how the lineup might be augmented, it’s a pretty murky task trying to put together three more lines that might actually produce. And let’s be clear here: With games coming as quickly as they will in this condensed schedule, having an effective fourth line will be increasingly important as the season wears on.
Consider A.V.’s task as the roster stands. Try to make lines that you know have a good chance to succeed and you’ll find it’s as Harry Neale always described: like trying to carry three pounds of bleep in a two-pound bag.
There are a number of lines that might work, that could be effective short term, but none that has even the most remote chance of taking any team’s defensive focus off the twins. So get that centre in here quickly and pray it’s not Sami Pahlsson.
Either that or get Ryan Kesler to Lourdes, and hope his recovery pace quickens once he sees his teammates in action.
It’s not just the forward lines that threaten to cause difficulty as the roster is presently listed. After what is expected to be the No. 1 defensive pairing of Kevin Bieksa and Dan Hamhuis, it gets a little more tricky. Do you move Chris Tanev up to the second pairing, by virtue of the fact he shoots right, and pair him with either Jason Garrison or Alex Edler? Or does Tanev slide down to the third pairing alongside Keith Ballard? The latter is most likely. So you’ll have Garrison on the right side with Edler, to get mountains of ice time, and that third pairing starting out will also get lots of work, but their time will diminish as the need to win games increases. That’s always the pattern with this coach. That’s why they always start out trying to limit Kesler’s ice time, and why he often ends up playing more than 20 minutes a game.
Then we come to the twins, where this team may have literally become addicted to brilliant goaltending. That is precisely what Cory Schneider and Roberto Luongo provided almost every night last season, particularly during the second half and in the playoffs.
One presumes Luongo will be gone, and the job will be turned over to Schneider who, as good as he has been in this town, has played just 68 NHL games and still has not yet proven he can be a No. 1 guy. Of course, Schneider’s done everything but multiply loaves and fishes here, including getting this team its only win in last year’s playoffs, but until he has shown that he can backstop a team in the vast majority of its games, there will still be an element of risk in a Luongo deal.
There are more risks if they keep Luongo here for any length of time, but there will be just that bit of angst about the goaltending when Lui boards that eastbound plane. Remember, Dan Cloutier was thought to be the next Marty Brodeur when he came from Tampa — and he had played 42 more NHL games than Schneider has when he arrived.
So is this team really a Cup contender? We’ll have a revised answer when Kesler returns, particularly if he regains top form, but until then your answer would not be words people in this town want to hear.
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GTA San Andreas, the last sequel to be released for the GTA 3 Series has finally made it’s way to Mac OS X. The game has been launched and has also turned out to be the most grossing game at the App Store. Before you go ahead and make the purchase I recommend that you [...]
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13 Interview
Mistakes To Avoid
The wrong move can cost you the
job! You've worked hard to get to the interview
stage. You passed the cover letter and resume
screening process... maybe even a few telephone
interviews.
Now it's.
1. Arriving late. Get directions from
the interviewer - or a map. Wear a watch and leave
home early. If the worst happens and you can't
make it on time, call the interviewer and arrange
to reschedule.
2. Dressing wrong. You make your greatest
impact on the interviewer in the first 17 seconds
- an impression you want to make powerfully positive.
Dress right in a conservative suit, subdued colors,
little jewelry (but real gold, or silver, or pearls),
low heels (polished) and everything clean and
neat. Hygiene includes combed hair, brushed teeth,
deodorant and low-key scent. Check everything
the night before, again before walking out the
door and once again in the restroom just before
the interview.
3. Play zombie. OK, you're nervous. But
you can still smile, right? And make eye contact,
yes? Sit up, focus on the interviewer, and start
responding. Enthusiasm is what the interviewer
wants to see.
4. No smoking, no gum, no drinking. This
is all comfort stuff for you, and none of it helps
you here. Employers are more likely to hire non-smokers.
At a lunch or dinner interview, others may order
drinks. You best not.
5. Research failure. The interview is
not the time for research. Find out the company's
products and services, annual sales, structure
and other key information from the Internet, the
public library, professional magazines or from
former employees. Show that you are interested
in working for the prospective employer by demonstrating
knowledge about the company.
6. Can't articulate your own strengths and
weaknesses. Only you can recognize your most
valuable strengths and most hurtful weaknesses.
Be able to specify your major strengths. Your
weaknesses, if such must come up, should only
be turned around to positives.
7. Winging the interview. Practice! Get
a friend, a list of interview questions and a
tape recorder and conduct an interview rehearsal.
Include a presentation or demonstration if that
will be part of the real interview. Start with
introducing yourself and go all through an interview
to saying good-bye. Write out any answers you
have difficulty with, and practice until your
delivery is smooth (but not slick).
8. Talk, Talk, Talk. Rambling, interrupting
the interviewer and answering to a simple question
with a fifteen-minute reply - all of these can
be avoided if you've thought through and practiced
what you want to communicate. Good answers are
to the point and usually shorter.
9. Failure to connect yourself to the job
offered. The job description details the company's
needs - you connect your experiences, your talents
and your strengths to the description. It answers
the essential reasons for the interview - "How
my education/experience/talents/strengths fit
your needs and why I can do this job for you."
10. Not asking questions - and asking too
many. Use your research to develop a set of
questions that will tell you whether this is the
job and the company for you. This will help you
limit and focus your questions. But don't overpower
the interviewer with questions about details that
really won't count in the long run..
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Disney scraps UK mobile plan
Parental concerns hold back the mouse
Posted in Mobile, 16th August 2006 09:43 GMT
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Disney has ditched plans to start a UK virtual mobile network (MVNO), blaming adverse changes in the retail environment for its decision
O2, which was to provide the service for Disney, said Disney content will still be made available, but there won't be Mickey Mouse phones in the foreseeable future.
Part of Disney's problem is that, in the UK, the brand is more associated with young children; official government advice is that children under 16 should only use a phone for "essential" calls - although what's essential to a 15-year-old might not resonate with the rest of us.
Parents in the UK are concerned about the safety of children using mobiles, and they are going to need a very compelling argument to put those concerns aside.
In the US, Disney has successfully launched its MVNO network, based around giving parents control of their children's spending, and the ability to track their kids through their phone handsets.
Tracking children has proved more contentious in the UK where the Data Protection Act guarantees privacy, even for children.
According to OUT-LAW.com, by convention children under 12 have to rely on their legal guardian to give permission, but between 12 and 16 the child must give their permission too, and it seems unlikely that many 15-year-olds would be interested in their parents knowing their location at all times.
Interestingly, it seems that tracking someone without their permission is not illegal, although intercepting the mandatory messages telling them they are being tracked (which are sent at random) would be.
Enabling close parental control of spending might appeal, but pre-paid systems (so pervasive in Europe, but comparatively rare in the US) allow children to safely manage their own spending. So it is far from clear how Disney would have been able to sell themselves to children, or, more importantly, their parents. And if British children under 12 aren't going to use Disney phones, what hope for the MVNO?
According to a recent report from Strategy Analytics, the only MVNOs in the US to get significant customer numbers have concentrated on pre-paid services, which appeal to the youth market. By concentrating on pre-paid they have clearly differentiated their offering, and market differentiation is what's needed.
Innovative services and pricing will attract customers, while teddy-bear-shaped phones and big media brands will not convince anyone that an eight-year-old needs a mobile phone. ®
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Ten Essential World Cup Apps
because we want to vent our spleens over the scores! not just suggest other apps. 80 & 75%s?
I liked the vuvuzela app that proclaimed "We work of almost all phones!"
Also the ad about prayer. England will need it, though obviously they'll have to be fervent and righteous to be effectual and availeth anything (James 5:16 in case you had to ask)
UI Design
Here's a suggestion for Android developers: get your UI designed by someone other than a child. I can't believe how amateurish all these apps look. No wonder they're free. Do the paid ones look any better?
Good work, Reg
Nice mix of both Android and iPhone apps there. Much appreciated.
Now Just Need ...
... some sort of medication to suppress the gag reflex.
Essential Programming
2009 NFL and NASCAR highlights after you tire of all the girlies in their designer shorts playing with their balls.
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Five essential BlackBerry apps for business
Widgets while you work
For most users, BlackBerry means business. And these days that means more than on-the-go immediate access to email. The BlackBerry App World contains a host of downloads you can grab to help you become more productive. Here are the five we reckon every BlackBerry owner should obtain.
AddTo
AddTo neatly improves integration between your BlackBerry’s built-in apps by allowing you to take info from email and text messages and add it to other apps in order to quickly create appointments, tasks and memos. Its simple pop-up menu system is easy to use, and speeds things up by eliminating the need to constantly switch between apps in order to copy and paste your information.
Dropbox
One of our favourite apps on any platform, Dropbox gives you 2GB of online storage that you can use free of charge, with extra storage available for a monthly subscription. The app creates a special “dropbox” folder where you can place the files that you want to store online, and the contents of that folder are automatically synced across to the dropbox folder on all your other devices too.
Copy2Contact
Another time-saving tool for improving the integration between apps, Copy2Contact allows you to copy contact information from emails and text messages, and instantly create new contacts in your BlackBerry’s address book without the usual tedious copy-and-paste process. It’s quick and easy to use - but it’s a shame that the purchase price is for a one-year license only.
Wifi File Transfer
There are a number of options for transferring files between your BlackBerry and either a Mac or PC, but Wifi File Transfer is one of the quickest and easiest. It allows you to use a web browser on your computer to view the files stored on your BlackBerry, giving you simple drag-and-drop file transfer over your wireless network.
CamCard
This business card reader will come in handy for almost all commercial users. The app allows you to take a photo of a business card and then extract names, phone numbers and other contact info. It can handle 16 different European and Asian languages, and there’s a batch-processing option that can scan up to 100 cards at a time.
Any favourites we missed? Share them in the comments below. ®
Dropbox
The Blackberry client for dropbox only allows photos to be uploaded from Blackberry to shared area. As a result the app is not that useful.
odfo
I've got dyslexia
Missing info
While the descriptions are fine, it would be very helpful to research a bit the permissions and other parameters required for those apps to function.
For those on BES, the security policies can render many apps not entirely working or at least not working as intended. Some insight into what requirements/potential conflicts these 5 would create would be welcome.
Duh
Couldn't quite learn to spell 'business' then? Perhaps playing with thousands of fart apps on your dumbphone has addled your brain.
'lol'
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Couldn't quite make it to ten essential apps for bussiness then? on <emphasis> the </emphasis> bussiness smart phone?
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Sony launches 3D adverts channel for Bravia tellies
Are 3D TV owners really so desperate for content?
Posted in Hardware, 13th July 2011 12:13 GMT
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Not to be outdone by Samsung, Sony has rolled out a 3D video-on-demand channel for its Bravia TVs.
Dubbed the "3D Experience", the channel will be pre-installed in 3D-capable Bravias bought from today. If you already own one, there will be a "refresh internet content" update shortly. [1] at least holds the promise of 3D films you can stream, albeit at a price.
Sony did promise that Wimbledon 2011 highlights will be added soon, but until then viewers will really only be treated to adverts. ®
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ACMA gives telcos five months to clean up act
You will or we will: choice
Posted in Government, 8th September 2011 23:30 GMT
Free whitepaper – Hands on with Hyper-V 3.0 and virtual machine movement that customers were frustrated by confusing plans and pricing, experiencing "bill shock" and suffering from poor customer service from their telco providers. It also found that the current Telecommunications Consumer Protection Code did not adequately protect customers.
The report proposes five substantive changes to make buying and using a mobile phone or internet service much simpler. These include: clearer pricing information in advertisements to allow for price comparison; improved and more consistent pre-sale information about plans; development of meaningful performance metrics; tools for consumers to monitor usage and expenditure; and better complaints-handling by providers.
“If the industry doesn’t develop a code that addresses the ACMA’s concerns, the ACMA will mandate changes through direct regulation,” Chapman warned.
The ACMA has invited industry to incorporate the changes to its Telecommunications Consumer Protection (TCP) Code by February 2012.
“The industry should address these concerns as soon as possible so the industry is now formally on notice to reflect these outcomes in the new TCP Code,” Chapman added. ®
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BT seeks apartment dwellers to sign-up to 'superfast' FTTP trial
We really wanna blow you some cable, dears
Posted in Broadband, 27th January 2012 11:29 GMT
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It added that downstream speeds of up to 100Mbit/s would initially be on offer via the pilot scheme. By around April this year that speed can be jacked up to 300Mbit/s if the guinea pigs want their broadband to be even faster during the test.
The company, which has been undergoing FTTP trials in various areas in an effort to improve the time it takes to install the technology, said that upstream speeds would be "the fastest in the UK."
“We are keen to extend the benefits of our fastest broadband services to those living in apartments," said Openreach next gen access MD Mike Galvin.
.”
BT, which has invested £2.5bn into deploying faster broadband in Blighty, is also of course hoping to bid for the £530m Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) funds from councils allocated the cash from Whitehall.
In November last year, the government confirmed it would take £100m from the £5bn national infrastructure investment pot over the course of this Parliament in a move to speed up broadband networks in selected urban areas. That cash is planned on top of the BDUK money currently in the hands of local authorities.
At the time BT said: "We look forward to working closely with the selected cities to see what can be achieved." ®
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Bogus Android markets seized in FBI software crackdown
'You wouldn't steal an Android app...'
Posted in Security, 22nd August 2012 17:20 GMT
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The US Department of Justice reports that three domains selling stolen Android applications have been seized in a combined operation by the FBI and international police.
Visitors to applanet.net, appbucket.net, and snappzmarket.com hoping for hooky apps will be disappointed to see the FBI's warning page showing that the Feds now hold the rights to the sites. The FBI coordinated the shutdown with French and Italian police, who filed nine warrants for arrest and seized local servers to shut down the illegal app stores and preserve evidence about those running them.
No apps for you says FBI
"The theft of intellectual property, particularly within the cyber arena, is a growing problem and one that cannot be ignored by the US government’s law enforcement community," said FBI special agent in charge Brian Lamkin. "These thefts cost companies millions of dollars and can even inhibit the development and implementation of new ideas and applications."
Hopefully this isn't going to mean a warning screen every time you download a new piece of software, in the same way you can't seem to buy a DVD without a dire warning from the Feds – marvelously lampooned by The IT Crowd – that you may be a pirate.
In a statement, the DOJ reports that FBI agents downloaded thousands of applications from legitimate developers that had been cracked and then put back on sale. As is the way of things with these markets, El Reg is willing to bet they got a fair chunk of malware samples as well.
"Cracking down on piracy of copyrighted works – including popular apps – is a top priority of the Criminal Division," said Assistant Attorney General Breuer from the Department of Justice.
"Software apps have become an increasingly essential part of our nation’s economy and creative culture, and the Criminal Division is committed to working with our law enforcement partners to protect the creators of these apps and other forms of intellectual property from those who seek to steal it." ®
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Nokia decrypts browser traffic, assures public not to worry
It’s acceleration, not snooping, say Finns
Posted in Mobile, 11th January 2013 01:02 GMT
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Discovering that browser traffic was being diverted to proxy servers owned by Nokia – a common behavior in the mobile world designed to improve browser performance on skinny mobile data links – Pandya began investigating what else was happening to his traffic.
The results are documented here. In brief, Pandya accuses the vendor of staging a man-in-the-middle attack against its own users: even for HTTPS traffic (his test case was), he writes, the phone sends a DNS request to the Nokia-owned cloud13.browser.ovi.com domain.
This raised the question of how the ovi.com server was handling certificates. By packet-sniffing the traffic, Pandya identified Nokia certificates that the phone was pre-configured to trust – with the result that the substitution of the ovi.com server for Google didn’t throw out a security warning.
His conclusion is that this behavior gives Nokia full, unencrypted access to browser traffic.
According to TechWeek Europe, Nokia has agreed that the diversion takes place, to allow it to compress Xpress mobile browser traffic for acceleration. The company denies storing the data, and says that none of the traffic is visible to any of its staff.
“Importantly, the proxy servers do not store the content of web pages visited by our users or any information they enter into them. When temporary decryption of HTTPS connections is required on our proxy servers, to transform and deliver users’ content, it is done in a secure manner,” the vendor told TechWeek Europe.
The row comes as Nokia announced what looks like a turnaround, releasing financials showing a profit on smartphone sales, compared to an October forecast for a 10 percent loss. It announced fourth-quarter sales of 4.4 Lumia units and 9.3 of the low-end Asha smartphones. ®
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And, sharing a quality of its Southern California counterpart, smog hung over the valley like a woolly gray blanket.
As I peered out an airliner window, some 2,000 feet above Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, with Tribhuvan International Airport in sight, the city's architectural statement was largely one of homogeneity. Think of milk and egg cartons on a grocery shelf.
I wanted to believe I harbored no preconceived notions about what the city might be like.
Still, after leaving the ancient city of Varanasi, India, earlier in the day, in late February, I suspected it would be similar to other large Asian cities I have visited in the last five years: millions of people desperately trying to survive another day, choked with traffic and pollution, trash littering most every thoroughfare, narrow or wide, with pockets of natural beauty, urban serenity and religious life in unexpected places. It was.
Like India, Nepal appeared to be a nation of shopkeepers, with the bottom floor of every building, residential or commercial, a home to merchants selling everything from vegetables and housewares to car tires and clothing to you name it.
Kathmandu's streets were relatively deserted until 10 a.m., when merchants opened their doors, but later and well into the evening, teemed with every kind of vehicle belching exhaust and people going about their day-to-day
Taking the so-called "ring road" that circles Kathmandu, a city of several million people, I visited Boudha, a UNESCO World Heritage site, home to a large Tibetan Buddhist stupa, a type of temple.
It is a white, onion-domed building topped by a cone-like structure from which streamed dozens of ropes adorned with colorful prayer flags. From the cone-like structure, two large eyes, painted blue, peered out onto the circular plaza below, keeping a vigil to ward off evil spirits.
Their effect worked apparently, because I didn't see any incarnations of bad vibes in the area, a sun-splashed center for Tibetan artisans who created religious paintings.
Later in the morning, I witnessed a series of outdoor cremations along an all-but-dry and trash-strewn riverbed in central Kathmandu.
The Hindu families of the deceased sat in small stone rooms just a few steps from the smoky funeral pyres. As smoke swirled along the wide stone walkways, I couldn't help but think I was about as far from my childhood homes in Virginia, Texas, Pennsylvania and California as I could be, but not too far from those in Japan and Turkey, both Asian countries. Deep in my memory, the ceremonies and traditions seemed vaguely familiar.
And the same feeling washed over me in the afternoon, after visiting ancient stone temples in Bhaktapur and climbing by bus into the Himalayan foothills outside Kathmandu. There, over tea at a rest stop, parts of the Himalayan range, by turns gray, blue, snow-capped and forbidding in their majesty, loomed in the distance, most of them at 27,000 feet or higher.
From where I sat, it seemed that some power, chaotic, random and ruthlessly Darwinian and, oddly at the same time, musical, providential and logical, had waved an enchanter's wand over this spectacular mountain range at some point in Earth's long history.
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You have to search high and low to find a politician who will tell it like it is. Here is Belgian MP Louis opposing support in Mali vehemently:
Update:
Whoops, as Anon mentioned, you won't get this unless you hit the closed caption button located in the bottom of the Youtube window as "cc", then you will get the English captions.
Get a load of that guy behind him--wonder what he's up to?
I don't what he is saying because I can't speak Belgian.
Here is another one from the UK.
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Let me just say that I feel terrible for the people who really want to win and don't. I love to give stuff away, I hope that's obvious by now, but part of me wants to give something to everyone. Obviously since I'm not rich, that's not possible. But the people not winning is a downer to me. I hope you all are having fun entering anyway.
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Denise
I am having fun!! I would never ask you to ship anything to Alaska anyway. I appreciate knowing you!@ Oh and FYI we have microfiber material on our furniture and sharpie pen comes right out...:-)
Kathy
Still praying for a snow day but it is 10degrees so not happening!!
Tomorrow is the LAST day of school!
oh and I get to be first to comment :-) Yipee..should win just for that but my timezone is on my side.
What fun in your house..your kids are sure enjoying all this!!!:)
-sandy toes
Congratulations ElleBee! I am having fun, no doubt! It's a lot of fun seeing your children playing along. It's so sweet of you to have such a wonderful series of giveaways!
Visiting from SITS.
Giveaways are so fun!
I am having fun entering! No worries there. I am loving all the things you're giving away. I like all of the little things I don't even want the Zune! However I just love the anticipation that builds when you add these and such. You're really good at putting give-away's together. You might have inspired me to do one! I am still kinda new to blogging so I don't know! :) But thanks for having such an exciting blog all the time.
Congratulations! And thank you so much for being so sweet!
Congrats ElleBee. It really does look like a fantastic prize.
Denise, it sure would be fun to win - and you have had some great prizes to win - but in reality we have all won by being able to share a little bit of your "insight" and "life".
We are all having a good time....I am anyway! I mean, sure, I'd like to win, but hey, it's a crap shoot, right?? :-)
Congrats ElleBee! Of course we're still having fun entering! :)
Congrats to ElleBee! It's still fun to enter!
Oh, don't feel bad, this is so much fun!!
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The
Ultimate LEGO Vehicle Contest
ULV 4: 8 May 2004
This in-action shot would be the last time Kathy's intricate
Temple of Binks would ever be seen intact.
When Kathy's and Rachel's vehicles
are both eliminated on the same throw, an emergency 15-second rebuilding
period is required. While Rachel asks for clarification on what parts
may be used, Kathy wastes no time on such formalities and grabs the good
parts.
The final showdown pitted brother against brother, and required multiple
throws to determine a victor. Sean's Mazda 666 proved hearty
and strong, knocking out one of Zardoz's eye sockets and exposing
it's brain on one side. But for some reason Brendan's driver and engine,
each situated behind one of the eyes, just would not come loose.
And so Brendan's Zardoz won the day.
Top performers: 1) Brendan,
2) Sean, 3) Lila, House Car #4 (tie)
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MALDI Ion Source for Mass Spectrometry
The Thermo Scientific* Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization (MALDI) offers capabilities for the award-winning Thermo Scientific* LTQ Orbitrap XL* and LTQ XL* mass spectrometers.
MSn and unattended, automated methods are now routinely available for MALDI samples. The MALDI source is ideally suited for proteomics and metabolism applications. Resolution of greater than 50,000 FWHM and mass accuracies of 2ppm are available for MS, MS/MS and even MSn data.
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Live Debate Coverage From The Root and This Week in Blackness
Elongated Thoughts: Join us here at 8 p.m. Wednesday for live tweeting and a Google+ Hangout.
(The Root) -- I don't know if you've heard about this, but there're going to be some "debates" happening pretty soon.
On Wednesday, Oct. 3, the first of three presidential debates will kick off in Denver, and apparently everyone is terrified. Both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have been actively downplaying expectations and participating in rigorous debate preparation. Romney and the entire Republican Party realize that he needs a win. If he gets decimated in the debates, his chances of gaining the presidency are pretty much done.
Barack Obama and the entire Democratic Party realize that it's their race to lose. If Obama gets hurricane-kicked with zingers and responds with aloofness and annoyance, he'll seem arrogant. Conservatives would love to be able to hammer him on being "uppity."
So this is going to be terribly interesting.
And it's because of this that I'm proud to announce that This Week in Blackness will be teaming up with The Root to provide live coverage for the first presidential debate. We'll be broadcasting live from Brooklyn, N.Y., and streaming to TWIB, The Root and Google+. We'll be discussing and breaking down everything leading up to the debate and will also provide immediate postdebate analysis. Tune in at 8 p.m. ET and join the conversation in our chat room and on Twitter (#TWIB2012).
And in the meantime, check out a recent segment from This Week in Blackness Radio in which #TeamBlackness (L. Joy Williams, Aaron Rand Freeman and I) discuss Romney's commentary on what to do with the uninsured in America...
(The Root) -- Ann Romney is worried. When asked what her biggest concern would be if her husband, Mitt Romney, becomes president, she had this to say: ," she continued. "So for me I think it would just be the emotional part of it."
But ... did you just say ... are you implying ... ? This is nothing, right? It's just a significant other of a presidential candidate saying that she's worried about the mental state of her husband if he becomes president. You know -- that thing Romney is actively trying to do.
Um ... yay! Mental and/or emotional instability in the White House?.
Mitt Romney Wants You to Know He Cares
Elongated Thoughts: Mitt Romney is nervous about how he's being perceived. Does this new ad make him seem more compassionate?
( The Root) -- Mitt Romney wants you to know he cares. No, no -- he really cares. He cares so much that he needs to tell everyone how much he cares in a new ad. He knows that the polls say that America believes Obama cares, so he can't even bad-mouth the president on that. What does a presidential candidate do?
Well, apparently he turns to the camera and makes an impassioned plea. Check out the ad and the discussion that followed from TWiB! Radio.
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Watch baseball greats, actors and the film's stars chat with The Root about Jackie Robinson's legacy.
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Recipes for vegetarians are plentiful, but how can you ensure you get the maximum benefit from eating vegetarian recipes? Here are some nutritional tips to help you get the most out of veggie food.
If you’re switching to vegetarianism or you’re already veggie but live on cheese and tomato sandwiches, learning a bit more about nutrition will make a significant difference to your diet. Buy a well-reviewed vegetarian cookbook and a dietary guide to get up to speed with what vegetarian produce is full of goodness – and what’s not.
Vegetarians often lack protein in their diet. A lack of protein can cause tiredness and poor health. Good non-meat protein sources include tofu, eggs, quinoa, chickpeas, avocadoes, peanut butter and miso soup. The same goes for iron, an adequate amount of which is often missing in a veggie food. Make sure you fill up on lentils, beans, and dark green leafy vegetables such as spinach, or take an iron supplement. Vegetarians can also miss out on essential fats, zinc, and vitamins B12 and D so it’s important to obtain these from elsewhere.
Vegetarians who eat eggs and dairy are called lacto-ovo vegetarians. Eggs are a wonderful source of protein, zinc, essential amino acids, vitamins A, B and D, choline, iron and unsaturated fat, while milk, cheese and yogurt are all valuable sources of calcium. Consume the free-range, organic versions to prevent inadvertently contributing to animal cruelty.
Other cultures often have healthier methods of cooking food. A lot of Asian and Chinese dishes serve vegetables and non-meat produce such as tofu flash-fried, sautéd or raw, thus retaining the goodness. These dishes still tastes delicious because of the addition of herbs and spices.
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We are honored to have been named one of the “Top 30 hotels In The Caribbean & Atlantic” by Condé Nast Traveler’s 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards! This past year, Condé Nast Traveler received votes from over 46,400 readers in …
The Sands at Grace Bay Named One Of The “Top 30 Hotels In The Caribbean” By Condé Nast Traveler’s 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards
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Canadiens, Senators battle for first place
(Sports Network) - A battle for first place in the Northeast Division is on tap Monday evening in Canada's capital city, as the streaking Ottawa Senators host the Montreal Canadiens at Scotiabank Place.
The Canadiens currently sit atop the division and are tied for the Eastern Conference lead with 26 points, two more than both Ottawa the Boston Bruins.
Ottawa enters Monday's showdown on a four-game winning streak and the club is 4-1-0 since star defenseman Erik Karlsson was lost for the season after suffering a severe cut to his left Achilles.
The last time Montreal played in Ottawa was on Jan. 30 and the Senators routed the Habs by a 5-1 score for their second straight home win in this series. Montreal answered with a 2-1 home win against the Sens on Feb. 3 and the Canadiens have won seven of the past 11 meetings overall.
The Senators secured their longest winning streak of the season and improved to 3-0 on a four-game homestand with Saturday's thrilling victory over Toronto, Colin Greening scored with 23.4 seconds remaining to lift Ottawa to the 3-2 decision over the Maple Leafs in this season's second installment of the Battle of Ontario.
Greening also had two assists for the Senators, while Mika Zibanejad and Erik Condra each added a goal and a helper to the cause.
With time winding down in regulation, Ottawa's Patrick Wiercioch fired a shot on net from the right point. Toronto's Ben Scrivens made the save but left a rebound for Greening, batted the puck out of the air and into the net for the game-winner.
"Being able to score on Ben is one of those weird situations," said Greening, who played college hockey with Scrivens at Cornell. "You always want him to do well, but not too well, but you've got to do what you've got to do."
Ben Bishop made 26 saves for Ottawa as he started in place of for injured No. 1 goaltender Craig Anderson, who is out with a sprained right ankle suffered Thursday against the New York Rangers. Anderson is day-to-day and isn't expected to suit up for Monday's battle with the Habs.
The Senators, who are 8-1-2 as the host this season, will embark on a five- game road trip following Monday's contest. The swing begins Thursday in Boston.
Montreal posted a shutout win Saturday against the visiting Rangers and has recorded a point in seven straight games, going 6-0-1 in those contests.
The Canadiens lost in overtime to the New York Islanders on Thursday but salvaged the second portion of a brief two-game homestand on Saturday. Erik Cole, Alex Galchenyuk and Lars Eller all had second-period goals as the Habs cruised to a 3-0 victory over the."
Habs forward Rene Bourque sat out Saturday with flu-like symptoms and is questionable for Monday's game.
Monday's test kicks off a stretch of seven road outings in eight games for the Canadiens, who are 4-1-1 as the visiting team this season.
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Nicola Roberts looks all Tangled Up with messy hair and mismatched outfit
NICOLA Roberts looks nothing like her usual fashionista self as she goes for a night out in London.
The Girls Aloud singer wore her extremely volumised hair loose and messy for the outing to posh eaterie Bolo's Schloss.
She added the odd-looking combination baggy of navy blue Aladdin pants and unlaced brown military style boots to the ensemble.
However Nicola, 27, did manage to win some style points back with her grey leather jacket and printed t-shirt.
She ate ate the popular Kensington restaurant after spending the day with some young fashuion lovers at BBC Children In Need project Threads.
he wrote on Twitter: 'Just been to meet an amazing group of young girls at @BBCCiN Fashion Project "Threads". Your money makes such a difference !! #CiN.'
Nicola also enjoyed drinks and a spot of dancing with a pal at the luxurious new nightspot.
Girls Aloud missed out on the No1 spot in the UK Singles Chart this weekend with their charity single Something New.
The track became their 21st Top 10 hit, but cheeky Essex boy Olly Murs beat them to the top of the charts with his release Troublemaker.
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You’ve Dion it
now, Rita Ora
Singer is Celine's No1 fan
RITA Ora landed her first No1 with debut solo single R.I.P. featuring Tinie Tempah yesterday – and revealed she harbours a guilty music pleasure.
She used to be a massive Celine Dion fan. She said: “Me and my dad always used to sing along to her songs.
“If I told the whole world he loved Celine Dion he’d kill me. Oops, I just told The Sun.”
Forget her old man – Rita should be more concerned what boss Jay-Z might think.
She’ll be seeing his Watch The Throne gig in London this week. Not a bad one to be side of stage for.
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Rita’s on the pull
Singer lends a hand behind the bar
RITA ORA can belt out a tune, but she pulls a dreadful pint.
The singer tweeted these snaps of herself yesterday with the words: “Dad’s short of staff, just helping out at the pub.”
She’d make a better ice cream seller than barmaid.
Stick a couple of flakes in that glass and you wouldn’t tell the difference.
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Adam is so sorry for Ron
CRISTIANO RONALDO earns over £10million a year and has beautiful women falling at his feet.
But Adam Matthews feels SORRY for him.
That’s because the Celtic star reckons the Portuguese ace is unlucky to be playing in the same era as Lionel Messi.
Welsh full-back Matthews faces the Madrid idol in Philadelphia tomorrow night and admits he doesn’t have a clue over the best way — or ANY way — to stop him.
He said: “I don’t know how you approach tackling a guy such as Ronaldo.
“Ronaldo’s a great player — I actually feel for him a bit because he’s playing in the same era as Lionel Messi.
“If it wasn’t for Messi then he’d be up there as the best in the world.
“If I get the chance to play against him it will be a great opportunity and a great experience.”
Matthews is savouring, not fearing, the prospect of testing himself against another top opponent.
He said: “The best players I’ve come up against have both been with Inter Milan. Last season it was Samuel Eto’o and then Wesley Sneijder was in the Inter side we faced at Parkhead pre-season.
“Their movement makes them special — it’s a lesson for someone like me.
“I’m a young guy still learning my trade and even if they beat you, or your team loses the game, there are small things that you can pick up.
“To play against world class players like that can only help you as a player.
“Real will be hell of a tough, but you can only go into a game like that excited.
“You are going to be up against some of the best players in the world and that’s what we get into this game for — to play against the best.
“We’ve played real quality in the last few weeks.
“Against Ajax we didn’t do ourselves justice and then against Inter we showed a real improvement and were unlucky not to win.
“We’re going in the right direction.
“If we can beat Real it will give us a big boost.”
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Each week, I’ll present a low-cost meal (or a meal that demonstrates a lot of options for cutting costs) that my family eats for dinner and enjoys. Many of the recipes will be vegan or vegetarian, with options to add other ingredients for non-vegetarians.
When I was a college student, one of the meals I consistently ate was ramen noodles. I could often pick up twelve packages of it for $1. I would take it home, boil it up, add the seasoning packet, and enjoy.
Over time, my taste buds became a bit more discerning – and I became a bit more health conscious, too. I began to realize how unhealthy the seasoning packets were, full of sodium and MSG and other things I’d rather not think about.
Still, the price was alluring. I could often find packages of ramen on sale for $0.10. I’d still eat them for lunch on occasion.
Eventually, though, I started experimenting with the noodles. What can be done with them that’s flavorful and interesting? I tried using them as ingredients in other dishes without the seasoning packet, eventually to much success.
I eventually reached a point where I found great success making skillet meals out of Americanized versions of Eastern cuisine – kung pao shrimp, for example. By cooking these meals in a skillet and adding ramen, I had a simple and low-cost way to make a very hearty and flavorful family meal.
Note: I’m using shrimp in this example. While I’m on a mostly vegan diet, my diet does include a weekly dose of either fish or seafood in order to get some omega-3 fatty acids into my body, so this is how I got it in this week.
What You Need
This recipe is similar to the “Kung Pao Style Shrimp with Ramen” recipe found in The Best 30-Minute Recipe.
You’ll need:
4 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 1/2 pounds medium or large shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 red bell pepper, sliced thin and cleaned
1 cup roasted unsalted peanuts (lightly salted will work if you can’t find unsalted)
5 minced garlic cloves
2 tablespoons grated fresh ginger
2 tablespoons red pepper flakes
5 cups vegetable stock (you could also use chicken stock if you have it or water if you have no stock)
6 3 ounce packages of ramen noodles, discarding those seasoning packets
3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
1 tablespoon sesame oil (optional)
4 sliced scallions or one small sliced onion
The total cost of ingredients for us was about $11, but it made enough for nine meals, dropping the cost per meal down to nearly $1.
Note how this recipe again uses our simple homemade stock recipe. This stuff is so easy to make and contributes flavor to everything.
The Night Before (or Early That Day)
The biggest thing you can do in advance is to cut up the bell pepper and the scallions. You can also mince the garlic and grate the ginger if you wish, but these are perhaps best if you do them right before adding them to the dish. You’ll have time to do this while cooking.
Preparing the Meal
You can easily prepare this meal in a large pot. I used a 5.5 quart enameled cast iron pot to cook this entire meal without any difficulty.
To start, add a teaspoon of the oil to the pot and heat it over high heat until the oil seems to shimmer. Add half the shrimp, let it cook for about a minute, then toss the shrimp. Let it cook for about a minute and a half more, then remove all the shrimp to a separate bowl. Repeat this entire procedure, oil and all, with the other half of the shrimp.
Drop the heat down to medium-high, then add the remaining oil. When it’s shimmering, add the sliced peppers and peanuts. Cook these while tossing them for about three minutes or until the peppers are fairly soft, then remove the peanuts and peppers to the bowl with the shrimp.
Add the garlic, ginger, and red pepper flakes and stir them continuously for about thirty seconds (your kitchen will begin to smell tremendous at this point). Slowly add the stock, then start adding the ramen noodles. Break the ramen noodle bricks up as you add them to the liquid.
Bring this mixture up to a simmer, then stir this entire mixture with tongs for about two and a half minutes. You should be slowly breaking the pieces of ramen apart into distinct noodles with the tongs.
Add the remaining ingredients (hoisin sauce, rice vinegar, optional sesame oil, and scallions) and let it continue to simmer for about a minute and a half more, then serve.
My family loved this stuff. All of the leftovers were happily consumed.
Optional Ingredients
The biggest change you might make is that you could substitute all sorts of things for the protein in this meal. Chicken works, as would beef or even tofu. I would suggest pre-cooking the chicken or beef in a separate container, then adding water to the hot pan once you’ve removed the meat. Save that water, as it’ll make a great liquid to use in this recipe.
Depending on the flavor you’re seeking (and what you have on hand), you could also easily substitute soy sauce for the hoisin sauce.
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6. The Underwater Cities
THE “PROOF”: A supposed megalithic site recently discovered off the coast of Cuba, and as detailed in certain sci-fi movies: “God does not build in straight lines.”
Photo c/o Google Maps. (More on that later.)
WHY IT’S BULLSHIT: For one, Plato described Atlantis as being a series of concentric circles, not squares. For another, Atlantis never existed. It was a strictly hypothetical city used by Plato the same way all those bananas and cantaloupes your teacher used on your math tests.
Ditto for all those “barns” you worked on in Algebra.
However, while Atlantis was nothing, this sure as hell looks like something at least somewhat resembling an underwater grid.
OUR TAKE ON IT: A glitch in Google Ocean. Which, sure enough, it turned out to be. The map was subsequently updated into something even more boring than a couple straight lines.
5. The Coso Artifact
THE “PROOF”: A modern-looking spark plug found encased within a 500,000 piece of material, allegedly proving that highly-advanced civilizations existed long before human record.
Also, that they were in dire need of fiber tablets.
WHY IT’S BULLSHIT: Because the artifact is really a 1920s-era Champion spark plug. Still, this does not explain how the hell it got trapped within a stone strong enough to break a diamond saw blade—unless, of course, it wasn’t.
OUR TAKE ON IT: A Champion spark plug lost by a malfunctioning time machine Doc von Braun made from a Model T to change the course of World War I.
Alas, your typical Model T can’t go anywhere close to 88 mph.
4. The Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
THE “PROOF”: Drawings of what appears to be astronauts in the home of a caveman, suggesting that the Atlantians were actually humans gifted with extraterrestrial technology.
Among them, the ability to scratch a rock against a wall.
WHY IT’S BULLSHIT: Because these “helmets” look a lot like a sun disk, one of the most common cross-cultural images in history. Furthermore, even if it was an ancient astronaut, there’s no evidence that they left us with anything more useful than a cave painting.
OUR TAKE ON IT: An ancient teaser-trailer for an upcoming movie about the actual Prometheus.
3. Pyramids
THE “PROOF”: It’s not so much how we built them, but why we built them all over the world, at the same time, and in patterns you can only see from space.
We’ll be the first to admit that this is pretty fucked up.
For some reason, several writers believe these buildings prove that Atlantis is in Antarctica.
WHY IT’S BULLSHIT: Because people love to use pyramids for whatever conspiracy theory they’re pushing even though it is now believed that they were built by skilled, hired laborers using technologies well within their means. As for how they turned up in so many different civilizations, the fact that some of them were built thousands of years apart from each other sort of spoils the surprise of them popping up everywhere.
OUR TAKE ON IT: A certain boy-pharaoh decided he wanted to be world champion of “King of the Mountain” and started a fad.
That, or he just felt like stacking everything he could find.
2. The Martian City
THE “PROOF”: To support the claim that the Atlanteans were such an awesome ancient race, once must entertain the idea of a humanoid civilization with post-modern technology existing over 4.5 million years ago. Since this invites the idea that the Atlanteans—and by association humanity—might be alien life forms to this planet, this begs the question of where the hell everyone came from. According to conspiracy theorists, the obvious answer is Mars.
Or a certain Hawaiian volcano.
WHY IT’S BULLSHIT: Because the closer you look at the Martian surface, the closer it comes to resembling a lifeless pile of rocks.
Exhibit A.
Exhibit A (through the eyes of a moron).
However, this is exactly the problem with so many of these conspiracy theorists: They know what they want to see before they even start searching for “evidence.” As a result, they formulate what they want to see around what is actually provided. It is similar to the effect of illusory contour, only way more embarrassing for friends and family members of those affected.
Exhibit B.
Exhibit B (through the eyes of a moron).
OUR TAKE ON IT: Looks like a pile of rocks to us, too.
1. Plato’s Timaeus and Critias
THE “PROOF”: Plato wrote about a lost civilization called “Atlanteans” who conquered the entire Atlantic coast in his psudo-scientific dialogues Timaeus and Critias.
Conveniently absent: Pederasty.
WHY IT’S BULLSHIT: There’s a reason why all we know about Atlantis comes from Timaeus and Critias: Plato made it up specifically for these texts. It was a fictional city used the same way your math teachers used all those bananas and cantaloupes to teach you how to count.
Ditto for all those “barns” you worked on in Algebra.
As a result, nobody even took the idea of Atlantis as a real place seriously until a few centuries ago, we’re guessing because at that point people started getting more of their knowledge from textbooks approved by a Texas school boards.
OUR TAKE ON IT: Just some daily edits Plato prepared for his students over the course of a year complete with doodles somebody worked into the margins.
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You are an astonishing ignorant about civilization history. Note that your bullshit counter-proofs are valid; however you lack insights into these philosophers and poets and historians of the past.
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The UN recently held its first conference on happiness and well-being with the stated purpose of "realizing the future we all want." But what is it we all want? Is it maximum well-being or happiness, or is it just meeting our needs, as proclaimed by the popular definition of sustainable development?1 Happiness and development goals are, to a great extent, non-material. They are also hard to define, measure, and implement.
The commonly used national accounts, therefore, focus narrowly on observable market activities and economic growth. Indicators of sustainable development, well-being, human development, quality of life, or environmental sustainability seek to show that such a focus is misleading. They combine selected concerns and statistics, deemed to be representative of our broader goals in life. All these indicators are proxy measures for something bigger than what the underlying statistics suggest. Their meaning and validity need careful examination before they can be used in policy and decision making.2 Some indicators give equal weight to unequal issues when calculating averages of, for instance, health, education, or pollution data. Other measures apply controversial money values when pricing “priceless” environmental services like waste disposal and the supply of natural resources.
It is not surprising that national statistical offices are reluctant to include these indicators in their regular data collection programs. Nor is it a surprise that policymakers continue to focus on the economy and its established statistics and accounts. The national accounts provide the standard indicators of economic performance and—over time—economic growth. Gross domestic product (GDP) is just one of many national accounting indicators, but has been the focus of economic analysis and policy. It has also been accused of being a misleading measure of well-being.
GDP-Bashing Is Not the Solution
The popular Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)—supposedly a measure of national welfare—famously asked: “Why is America down, when GDP is up?”3 Dismissing GDP out of hand might jump the gun, though:
- GDP was never designed as a measure of human well-being or national welfare. It is simply the total economic value of goods and services produced in a country during one year. The final use of goods and services by households, enterprises, and other countries balances their supply. GDP is thus not only a measure of national output but also of the uses of national output for consumption, capital formation, and net exports (minus imports). As pointed out by the Stiglitz Commission: “GDP is not wrong as such, but wrongly used.”4
- The worldwide-adopted System of National Accounts5 defines and measures, among others, economic production, national income, consumption, and capital formation. Accounting equations and the use of market prices provide transparent and consistent tools for adding up the results of different economic activities, notably for the calculation of GDP. Showing the accounting results for different economic sectors (households, industries, government) makes it possible to assess production and consumption patterns and the distribution of income and wealth.
- GDP-bashing might throw the baby out with the bathwater—the baby being the national accounts and GDP the bathwater. There is indeed no other place where standardized measures of economic activities can be found and presented to policymakers in a meaningful “nutshell.” Individuals, corporations, and trade unions also find information on their economic situation and prospects, which they can compare with those of their own country and other nations.
Seeing that the national accounts will not go away, why not go right into the accounts and adjust them? Policymakers should find it easier to accept a need for reorienting the economy when their main source of information tells them to do so. The price for this is, however, limited coverage: the national accounts include only those issues that can be readily observed, measured, and valued. This includes the interaction between the economy and the environment, but excludes less well-documented social, cultural, or institutional concerns.
The System of integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA) has been designed to assess the environment-economy interaction and, at least originally, to adjust the key economic indicators of GDP, capital, and income. The 1992 Rio Earth Summit endorsed the original SEEA.6 When measuring economic activity, the SEEA accounts additionally for the costs of hitherto ignored environmental impacts. It adjusts the standard economic indicators by further deducting these new environmental costs. Note, however, that the SEEA has now been twice revised. The latest 2012 version of the SEEA appears to reject the full adjustment of accounting aggregates as a matter of research and experimentation.7 The SEEA thus avoids being drawn into controversial measurement of well-being, happiness, the quality of life, or sustainable development. Compatibility with the national accounts should appeal to policymakers who wish to compare the conventionally measured and “greened” performance of the economy.
Accounting for Sustainability: A Practical Step toward Redesigning the Economy
At the heart of greening the national accounts is measuring the sustainability of economic activity and its use of the natural environment. The idea is to consider nature and its services to the economy as natural capital. The services of natural capital include, in particular, the provision of raw materials to the economy and the absorption of wastes and pollutants by environmental sinks. This allows treating the depletion of natural resources (e.g., by deforestation, mining, or overfishing) and the degradation of the environment (notably, by pollution) as capital consumption. The idea is to apply the accounting concepts of produced capital (such as roads, buildings, or machines) and their wear and tear to natural capital and its depletion and degradation.
The purpose of accounting for the costs of both produced and natural capital consumption is to retain funds for replacing used-up capital goods. Produced and natural capital maintenance is the accounting definition of the sustainability of future production and consumption, in other words, of economic growth. Measuring the costs of sustainability as capital consumption allows their deduction from gross indicators of economic activity, including value added, domestic product, and capital formation. The results are an environmentally adjusted net domestic product (EDP) and environmentally adjusted net capital formation (ECF).
A global application of the SEEA can illustrate the meaning of these adjustments and their results. Data gaps and different cost concepts in the available data make this a rough first study of global sustainability.8 Global environmental depletion and degradation costs amounted to about 3 trillion U.S. dollars or 6 percent of world GDP in 2006. During 1990–2006, the world economy showed similar growth rates for GDP and EDP. For such short time periods, ECF paints, however, a better picture of the potential sustainability of economic activity: it indicates the capacity to produce new capital after accounting for the loss of produced and natural capital. Figure 1 shows large differences in the sustainability of economic growth for the world’s major regions and countries. Positive ECF in industrialized countries and China shows sustainable economic growth. Negative ECF in developing countries indicates that these countries have been living off their natural and produced capital base. Overall, the world economy appears to be sustainable, at least in terms of weak economic sustainability.
Weak sustainability maintains the overall monetary value of produced and natural capital. It implies that the different capital categories can be substituted in reinvesting for capital maintenance. This is the reason why some ecological economists prefer physical sustainability measures such as the carrying capacity of territories or the resilience of ecosystems to perturbations. The complexity and large variety of ecosystems make it difficult to apply such “ecological sustainability” at national or international levels.9
Produced and natural capital maintenance is a narrow but operational definition of the sustainability of economic growth. It ignores other less tangible human, social, and institutional capital categories. Measurement and conceptual problems—e.g., what is capital consumption—have so far prevented accounting for human capital (health and skills) and social/institutional capital (networking, social cohesion, law and order). Nonetheless, all these capitals have been called forth as pillars of sustainable development.
International organizations use the multiple-pillar argument to explain the connections between sustainable economic growth and development. The United Nations Environment Programme’s green-economy report suggests that sustainable development can be easily translated into economic well-being: maintaining the use of all capital categories supposedly maintains economic welfare, “now and tomorrow.”10 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s green growth strategy is more concrete: greened economic growth, which maintains produced and natural capital, cannot replace sustainable development but is a “measurable … subset” of such development.11 In both cases, sustainability, in terms of capital maintenance, looks like the anchor that prevents us from drifting off into difficult-to-measure realms of well-being or development.
The next step of actually redesigning the economy requires the allocation of the environmental sustainability cost to those households and enterprises that contributed to nonsustainability, in particular, by their environmental impacts. Well-known market instruments such as eco-taxes or pollution permits can prompt economic agents to internalize these costs in their plans and budgets. The purpose is to make them change their environmentally harmful production and consumption styles. Delayed and weak responses might make it necessary to supplement market instruments with governmental rules and regulations. Integrated environmental-economic accounts can provide the benchmarks for setting the level of market instruments and for evaluating the efficiency of sustainability policies. Greening the national accounts could unleash the greening of the economy—the leitmotiv of the Rio+20 Earth Summit.
Further Work
A number of open questions remain, including the following:
- The valuation of environmental services. Many stocks of natural resources and most sinks for pollutants are not traded in markets. They do not obtain a market price, and their economic value has to be imputed with the help of different valuation techniques. Contrary to the original SEEA, the latest revision relegates environmental degradation—mostly from pollution—and its monetary valuation to future research and experimental ecosystem accounting. Allowing only for the depletion of economic natural resources, which are already part of the national asset accounts, looks like omitting the environment from environmental-economic accounting.
- Satellite accounts. Agenda 21 of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit recommended implementing the SEEA “as a supplement to, rather than a substitute for, traditional national accounting.”6 Satellite accounts leave the conventional national accounts untouched, even if they ignore running down economic resource stocks of minerals, timber, or fish. Should the conventional accounts adjust their economic indicators for natural resource depletion? Do we need a satellite of the satellite accounts to include environmental degradation in the SEEA? Will satellite accounts continue to be ignored by policymakers? These are some of the questions that will determine the adoption of the SEEA by the official statistical services of countries.
- Strong versus weak sustainability. What is the significance of ignoring critical (i.e., essential and nonsubstitutable) natural capital in weak-sustainability accounting and policy? How can critical capital be identified in the greened physical and monetary national accounts?
- Corporate accounting. Corporations have shied away from environmental “full-cost accounting” for their environmental impacts. Obviously, they prefer showing what they have done for the environment (i.e., their expenses for environmental protection). Can the national environmental-economic accounts serve as a model for corporate accounting? Can such linkage improve corporate social responsibility?
- Coverage of human, social, and institutional capital. Capital consumption of these intangible categories is difficult to imagine and even harder to measure. Can nonmonetary indicator sets adequately describe the use of intangible capital? Can these indicators be used for aggregating all capitals into holistic measures of sustainable development, well-being, or happiness? This is an important area of further research. As we all know: noncountables count.
The first 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro called for establishing the SEEA in all member states “at the earliest date.”6 The Johannesburg Summit in 2002 ignored green accounting and encouraged instead further work on indicators of sustainable development. One of the two main themes of the forthcoming Rio+20 Summit is “a green economy in the context of sustainable development.”12 Hopefully, this will put comprehensive environmental-economic accounting back on the international agenda of monitoring and implementing sustainable growth and development.
References
- World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED). Our Common Future (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987).
- Bartelmus, P. Quantitative Eco–nomics: How Sustainable Are Our Economies? (Springer, Dordrecht, 2008).
- Cobb, C, Halstead, T & Rowe, J. If the GDP is up, why is America down? The Atlantic Monthly (October 1995).
- Report by the Stiglitz Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress: Executive Summary [online] (14 September 2009)..
- European Commission, International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations, and World Bank. System of National Accounts 2008 [online] (United Nations, New York, 2009). unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/docs/SNA2008.pdf.
- United Nations Sustainable Development. United Nations Conference on Environment & Development. Agenda 21, Ch. 8 [online] (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 3–14, 1992)..
- The different versions of the SEEA are available on the website of the United Nations Statistics Division [online]. unstats.un.org/unsd/envaccounting/seea.asp.
- Bartelmus, P. The cost of natural capital consumption: Accounting for a sustainable world economy. Ecological Economics 68: 1850-7 (2009).
- Bartelmus, P. Sustainability Economics: An Introduction (London and New York, Routledge, forthcoming).
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication [online] (2011)..
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Towards Green Growth [online] (2011)..
- Rio+20: United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development [online] (June 20–22, 2012)..
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TROY, MICH. Detroit Red Wings player representative Danny Cleary is nervous about whether there will be an NHL season.
Players are voting through Thursday whether to approve a “disclaimer of interest,” which would give the NHL Players’ Association executive board the power to say the union no longer represents the players. Cleary said Monday the vote will pass “overwhelmingly. If it’s not 99.8 per cent, I’d be disappointed.”
If the board chooses to withdraw, players could then take owners to court, suing them for triple damages claiming the lockout that has shuttered the NHL since Sept. 16 is illegal.
It’s a path that worked last year for the NBA Players Association during their collective bargaining agreement battle with the NBA last year. Faced with such a mass of red tape, the NBA blinked and the sides reached an accord that enabled the basketball season to begin on Christmas Day.
That’s not a realistic window for hockey, not with Christmas being one week away. At best, maybe there is an agreement by the end of the month, provided the NHL take the PA’s threat seriously. In order to have the minimum 48-game season that commissioner Gary Bettman has required, play would have to start in mid-January.
“The way we look at it is, we’ve got 2½ weeks,” Cleary said. “Either we are playing, or we’re not.
“I just hope that we get back to playing. I’m nervous.”
The sides exchanged chess moves on Friday, with the NHL making a pre-emptive move by filing a class action complaint in U.S. District Court in New York and an unfair labour practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board.
The NHL, which is seeking to have the lockout declared legal by federal judge Paul A. Engelmayer, is arguing that the disclaimer move would be a ploy because the players strongly back the union and the NHLPA merely would merely be dissolved to give players the right to sue the league.
The NHLPA on Friday issued a brief statement, saying, “Based on what we’ve learned so far, the NHL appears to be arguing that players should be stopped from even considering their right to decide whether or not to be represented by a union. We believe that their position is completely without merit.”
Detroit Free Press
NHL LOCKOUT AT A GLANCE
DATE: Monday, Dec. 17.
DAY: 93.
LAST NEGOTIATIONS: In-person talks Dec. 13 in New Jersey. Bargaining conference call Dec. 14.
NEXT NEGOTIATIONS: None scheduled.
GAMES LOST: 527 (all games through Dec. 30, plus New Year’s Day Winter Classic and all-star weekend).
QUIET TIMES: There wasn’t any contact between the NHL and the players’ association on Monday, the third straight day the sides kept their distance. The union membership is believed to be in the midst of a vote which is expected to determine if the executive board will have the authority to file for a “disclaimer of interest” that could lead to antitrust suits against the league.
WHAT WE MISSED: A five-game slate of games was wiped out Monday night, including an always attractive meeting between perennial Atlantic Division rivals, the New Jersey Devils and the Penguins in Pittsburgh. Both teams earned more than 100 points last season, with Pittsburgh (108 points) finishing one point behind the division-winning New York Rangers, and New Jersey ending up in fourth place with 102 points. Pittsburgh lost in the first round of the playoffs to divisional foe Philadelphia. New Jersey went all the way to the Stanley Cup finals before falling to champion Los Angeles.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Jacques Martin was fired as coach of the last-place Montreal Canadiens and replaced by assistant Randy Cunneyworth, who was given the title of interim head coach for the rest of the season. The Canadiens, last in the Northeast Division, made the move after a 13-12-7 start. Assistant general manager Larry Carrière was appointed assistant coach, his first coaching job after a long career in scouting and administration.
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A Daytona crash in the NASCAR Nationwide series race today overshadowed the race. The Daytona crash was so serious that a flaming car engine was in the spectator side of the catch-fence. Yes, the flaming engine of Ryan Larson’s car and an entire wheel ended up in the spectator side.
The debris spread into the upper deck. Emergency crews treated fans on both levels.
More than 33 fans were injured. Fourteen were taken to area hospitals. Two people are in critical condition, according to the News-JournalOnline.com
It’s amazing that the drivers just got out of their cars like nothing happened. Especially Kyle Larson, given his car was totaled. Unbelievable! This Daytona crash will go down in NASCAR history. The DRIVE4COPD 300 was won by Tony Stewart.
The massive pile-up occurred right as the green flag was coming up. Regan Smith was leading coming to the checkered flag when he was turned sideways into the wall. Cars began wrecking all over the track, and Larson’s car went sailing into the fence. Winner Tony Stewart handled himself professionally and with priorities. He didn’t over-celebrate, rightfully his primary concern was the safety and well being of the other drivers and spectators in stands. “As much as we want to celebrate…I’m more worried about the drivers and fans in the stands right now,” Stewart said.
We’ve heard so much about the safety of the new Gen-6 cars, but this doesn’t affirm that reputation..
Here’s a photo of the Daytona crash that everyone will be talking.
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Andrea Bargnani can repay Toronto Raptors’ trust in him by making the last 27 games count: Kelly
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The Raptors' former No. 1 pick has become a peripheral player for the club.
After losing to the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday night, Andrea Bargnani opted to hide out in the treatment room post-game.
For all he knew, and for all we knew, it was his last night in Toronto colours. It didn’t turn out that way on trade deadline day, but the way Bargnani handled that last night does go some way to explaining the way he’d like to leave — anonymously, no goodbyes.
Upon returning from injury two weeks ago, Bargnani started off with some spirit. In his first game against Boston, he looked exhausted five minutes into his workday. He was lustily booed by a large contingent of the ACC crowd upon entering the game. That didn’t bother him. Very, very little bothers him. But he is a scorekeeper. He heard. He won’t forget.
The Italian is not a great perspirer, but on that first night back, he was immediately soaked. The fitness had not fully returned, but the intermittent desire was back. He was down in his stance on defence, hands up, helping out, putting his hip into people.
The feel for his mid-range shot was also a small work in progress, but better than expected, given the way he’d turned over his right elbow in injuring it. He finished five-for-10.
A couple of nights later — the night Rudy Gay tucked himself into Toronto hearts with a buzzer beater to win it in overtime against Indiana — Bargnani was once again a factor. It felt like a revelatory moment for a player forever looking for the square hole for his square peg. He’d become a complimentary piece, a floor extender. He was seven-for-10.
The 245 consecutive games he’d started for Toronto were now well behind him. Andrea Bargnani — No. 1 pick; sixth or seventh man.
Then the appearance of caring began burning off like morning fog.
Bargnani has become a peripheral figure on this team, the sort that may help, but is not depended on to do so. On the aspirational pecking order, he’s fallen somewhere between Alan Anderson and John Lucas III.
There have been many small nadirs on a graph dipping downward like Florida real estate. Bargnani only competes against his latest dip in form, and so every once in a while seems like he’s ticking upward.
Another low was reached against Memphis, when Bargnani found himself momentarily the only big on the floor with Marc Gasol entering. Instead, it was left to Landry Fields, giving up five inches and 50 lbs., to try and stop the Spaniard. It didn’t go well.
Where Bargnani’s offence has always been the last finger gripping the ledge, that’s dematerialized as well. He’s taken only 19 shots in the last four games. He’s made seven. Against Memphis, he had no points in more than 21 minutes.
Many charges have been leveled against Bargnani, but lack of confidence had never been one of them. Suddenly, he looks scared out on the floor.
That he was not traded does not mean there were no efforts to do so. He’s been featured in the freezer like a three-day-old fish for weeks now.
In deciding not to drop him for a bag of balls, Bryan Colangelo has taken an enormous risk. Make no mistake — trading away his signature Toronto acquisition had become the easy way out for the general manager. The depressingly obvious animus to Bargnani has grown so malignant, no return would have been judged too small by the fan base. Not immediately, at least.
But Colangelo remains determined that if Bargnani no longer fits into the Raptor template, he’s still worth something. The problem is getting the player to play as if he is.
No one can know this guy. People around the team will tell you that. He’s unknowable. That’s the source of both his continuing fascination and the attendant frustration. Several bright men have spent all of seven years digging around in the wires behind his breastplate trying to find the right connection. Whatever trust Bargnani initially put into coach Dwane Casey — and it was significant — has demonstrably faded as he works his way out of consideration.
That’s on the player, not the coach. Casey came here wanting to turn Bargnani into Dirk Nowitzki. That was always his point of reference — Nowitzki. It’s been a long time since that German’s name has found its way into Casey’s scrum lexicon.
Now Bargnani faces another downward fork in the road. He’s got 27 games left in Toronto. That’s it.
Colangelo is headed toward a one-year re-up in the off-season, and part of that gesture of faith will be breaking with the Italian.
Bargnani has the chance to do this organization the solid he owes them for all their trust in him. He can start playing like it matters.
They’re handing him a smaller plate than he’s used to, but he’s still capable of serving himself at the buffet. He’s getting paid either way, still owed $23 million (U.S.) over the next two years.
Amongst the many maddening things about a very decent young man is that you do not get any sense that he cares. New York or Sacramento? Chicago or Charlotte? You’d care. I’d care. He doesn’t care. He is an unmoored ship drifting through his NBA career, content to smash into a dock somewhere, before drifting for a little while longer.
If you knew him, you’d wish him luck.
Odds are, you quite understandably wish your
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Dance Of Love
Swaying in your arms
to the music playing.
You holding me close
I feel your breath upon my neck,
as you guide me across the room.
My heart feels as if it is pounding out of my chest.
I love you so much. I take a deep breath.
I breathe you in my love,
I feel your sweet caress
You have my heart
My soul
My Love forever
You , whispering in my ear,
Loving things only meant for me to hear.
My heart races
at your mere suggestions
I cant wait to be alone with you,
as soon as our dance has ended..
I'll be with you
My thoughts wonder.
Your fingertips roam,
fire burns inside me
we're headed home
I hear your whisper
in my ear what I love to hear
Two Soul mates together
Dancing to the heartbeat
You and I
You say softly, I love you .
I whisper back ~ I love you more
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A few weeks ago the Merrie Ukes entertained the residents and staff at the Collingswood Assisted Living Home on F Street. One of the highlights of the program was a solo by Scott Humphries. He sang, and accompanied himself on the guitar ala Willie Nelson fashion with a rendition of “On The Road Again.”
I bring this up at this time because the other day I returned from being on the road again. My caregiver, Patricia Atkinson, and I made a motor trip for a 10-day stay in the Sacramento area with daughter Margaret and her husband, Gregg. Actually this jaunt had been on the books for some time. But it had not blossomed beyond the planning stage.
Patty has been my designated driver for some time for those chores and appointments that are out of my range, you know the kind: doctor’s appointments, meetings and luncheons of some type out of the area, and the like. But I thought that since she is a good driver with sound judgment why not an extended motor trip?
In retrospect nostalgia had a lot to do with it. My wife, Zula, and I had made this journey countless times in the past 30 years. Kids in college in the Bay Area, and jobs in the State Capital were the motivation behind such adventures. And they were adventures. We enjoyed them immensely and I suppose I wished to relive the trips one more time.
Humphries would have sung in hill-billie style, “So they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly,” but in our case we loaded up the family sedan and moved, temporarily, to the State Capital.
There are many routes, roads and byways that have been written up in song and verse, that is, those that might inspire a bit of romance. Route 66 comes to mind as well as the old 101 and Coastal Route 1. Then there is the storied route that Fra Junipero Serra took on his Mission founding trips, El Camino de los Reyes, I think they called it. In contrast our route to make this northern trip, Interstate 5, might inspire a bad limerick but that is about all. There is nothing romantic about it. It is strictly a working man’s road. It is the worker who comes to work in the morning, dressed in khakis or dungarees with one objective in mind: to move folks from here to there. And it does it in the most efficient way known to road construction.
About the only thing that has ever been written about I-5 is the section known as the Grapevine. This is that stretch of highway well north of Los Angeles that climbs until one wonders if he ever will hit the apex and then comes down making one wonder if he ever will hit the nadir. This has received some attention from some writers. The novelist Eugene Burdick, mentioned it in a story and I daresay perhaps even Raymond Chandler threw it in somewhere. For the most part it has remained absent in California lore. Oh, there is the mile after mile of orchards and other growing plants in the vast valleys and the fields of live stock that will probably wind up being someone’s Big Mac in the near future. But other than that the only pleasant scenery are the ubiquitous coastal range to the west reminding us that there is an ocean beyond them hills.
Sacramento is a pleasant, lovely city. It’s only drawback, as I see it, is its awful weather. If it were not for the humidity in the summer and the bitter cold in the winter I think it would attract more folks. Nonetheless, it has many interesting features most that would be of interest to most California residents and visitors as well. Of these, we might start with the Capitol building itself. We took a docent tour one day and, though I had been there many times before, I learned a bit about design and history. We will have more on Sacramento, as well as San Francisco and Lake Tahoe in a future column.
By the way, because of my creaky legs daughter Margaret had acquired a wheelchair for my capital tour. I learned that Patty can drive a wheelchair as safely as she drives a car.
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TORONTO - When Raptors coach Dwane Casey issued a challenge to his second unit during half time, the message wasn't lost on John Lucas.
The backup point guard scored 10 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter as Toronto defeated the New Orleans Hornets 102-89 Sunday.
Casey wasn't pleased to see an 11-point Toronto lead in the second quarter quickly erased as the Hornets went on a 10-0 run with the Raptors second unit on the floor.
“We struggled a little bit in the first half where the second unit gave up a lead,” Casey said. “I challenged them about coming in and being ready to play, perform, you can’t play your starters 48 minutes and they came in and performed in the second half.”
Alan Anderson added 11 off the bench as Toronto (19-32) won its second straight and improved to .500 at the Air Canada Centre this season (13-13).
“He just called us out point blank, called us out and that’s what we needed, a wake-up call,” said Lucas. “We all talked in the locker room and said look, when we go back out there, we’re starting with as much energy as we can – just leave everything we have on the court, cause our first unit gave it everything they had so it’s time for us to step up too.”
Lucas, who had just six points at half time, added three in the third quarter before breaking out for 10 in the fourth to match a season-high
“I thought John did a heck of a job of getting into the basketball with their guards, didn’t get burned with (Greivis) Vasquez and also offensively made some big shots,” said Casey. “He did a great job on that end, so I thought the second unit came in, gave us that spark that we needed.
“We got to get that in the first part of the game and not give up a lead that the first unit did a great job of building.”
Rudy Gay had a game-high 20 points and Kyle Lowry added 14 points and 10 assists, his fourth double-double of the season.
Gay, who came in averaging 24.3 points since his trade from Memphis, became the first Raptor to have five straight games with 20-plus points since Andrea Bargnani (Dec. 28, 2011 - Jan. 4, 2012) last season.
“Our bench really picked us up,” said Gay. "The first half they kind of relaxed and we gave away that lead, but the second half they really picked us up and played well and got us that win.”
Amir Johnson chipped in 14 points with seven rebounds.
The Hornets had 27 of their 47 first half points from the bench led by Brian Roberts, who finished the game with 15.
Robin Lopez's 19 points led the Hornets (17-34), who lost for the first time in three games. New Orleans guard Vasquez had 17 points, seven rebounds and six assists.
“As a team we had a lot of breakdowns, especially on the defensive end,” said Lopez. "We had a game plan and we didn’t executed it.”
Jonas Valanciunas, who was making his first start since missing 18 games with a broken finger, had 11 points 10 rebounds for Toronto.
Toronto used a late 9-0 run in the second to take a 50-47 lead into halftime.
The Raptors scored 10 of its first 24 points of the game off dunks highlighted by a monster, uncontested, one-handed jam by Gay.
Sunday marked the final meeting.
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The Trip (1967)
Drama
Roger Corman directed this psychedelic odyssey concerning the curative properties of LSD, with a surrealistic screenplay written by Jack Nicholson. Peter Fonda is Paul Groves, a television commercial director whose estranged wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) is pressuring him to sign their divorce papers. Feeling strain in both his professional and his personal life, Paul talks to a guru named John (Bruce Dern), who suggests that an acid trip will cure what ails him. Paul goes to John's pad and his trip begins -- at first calm and sedate, but when Sally and a sexy blonde hippie enter his hallucinations, it's every man for himself. Paul experiences crazed sexual couplings, paranoiac visions, and even gets to attend his own funeral. After imagining he's seeing John's head bashed in, he runs from the apartment in terror and takes to the streets. He is finally rescued and brought to a beach house, where he completes his trip while making love to a beautiful woman. After the trip subsides, Paul is convinced he has been reborn and is prepared to face the new day.~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Cast: Bruce Dern, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Susan Strasberg, Salli Sachse
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Directed by: Roger Corman
Written by: Jack Nicholson
Running time: 1hr 25min
Opens: Jan 01, 1967 Limited
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Twelfth Day of Advent
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Sarepta May Have Found Treatment Breakthrough for Muscular Dystrophy
BOTHELL, Wash. (TheStreet) -- Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT)
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BNY Mellon Named The 2012 Champion Of Inclusion By Best Buddies
BOSTON, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of the company's ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion, BNY Mellon has been named the 2012 Champion of Inclusion by Best Buddies, a nonprofit organization that creates one-to-one friendships and integrated employment opportunities for people with intellectual differences.
"When I first began as the State Director of Best Buddies Massachusetts, our Jobs Program served 28 participants throughout Boston and now, just four short years later, we are serving more than 70. None of this would have been possible without the support of BNY Mellon," said Craig Welton, State Director of Best Buddies Massachusetts. "BNY Mellon was the first private funder of our Jobs Program in Massachusetts, and with their investment, we've been able to substantially expand each year. There is no doubt that our affiliation with BNY Mellon lends immediate credibility to our programs and has allowed us to attract other sizeable investments and support for our very important mission."
Founded in 1989 by Anthony K. Shriver, Best Buddies helps people with intellectual and development disabilities secure rewarding jobs, live on their own, become inspirational leaders and make lifelong friendships. It engages participants in each of the 50 United States and in 50 countries around the world. Best Buddies' eight formal programs – Best Buddies Middle Schools, High Schools, Colleges, Citizens, e -Buddies, Jobs, Ambassadors and Promoters – positively impact nearly 700,000 individuals with and without disabilities worldwide.
"Integrated employment significantly contributes to the development of an inclusive environment that benefits individuals with special needs, and Best Buddies is leading the way in providing employment opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental differences," said Joanne Jaxtimer, regional executive for New England at BNY Mellon. "Advancing workforce development opportunities is one of our corporate priorities, and we are proud that our funding has helped their Jobs Program grow.
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The gritter hits the fan
A GRITTER slides into a wall on treacherous roads yesterday as Britain was hit by THUNDERSNOW — where lightning strikes with a blizzard instead of rain.
The freak combination struck the East coast where parts of Norfolk saw six inches of snow.
The gritter pranged a wall in Saltburn, Cleveland. However, many Brits enjoyed the snow yesterday, going sledging in Meersbrook Park, Sheffield, and walking in King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
Forecasters warned that temperatures would plunge to minus 12°C (10°F) in places today with snowfalls of up to four inches expected in the East.
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A small group of economists are trying to study whether income inequality may have contributed to the economic collapse. The income gap in the years leading up to the recent recession, which is often compared to the Great Depression, has a striking resemblance to the income equality in 1928, when the top 10 percent of earners received nearly half of the total income. Finance reporter Louise Story wrote about this theory for The New York Times earlier in August, and we spoke with her about the income gap on The Takeaway last week.
Today, we look at the income disparities on a state-by-state basis and examine how gaps in income contribute to social and financial crises. Ray Brescia from Albany Law School recently published a study called, "The Cost of Inequality."
Bresica and Story explain the impact of income inequality on the financial sector and why connecting the two can be difficult for economists.
Thank you for alerting us to this new research. I introduce my college students to the writings of karl Marx, and they are amazed at how well he describes the darker side of capitalism. the students from lower class origins are especially interested in the structure of the economy as seen through conflict theory. broadcasts like this remind them that these issues are not merely academic.
Hearing Louise Story use the word "crisises" bugged me as well, but it looks like "crisis" can be pluralized as either "crises" or "crisises."
How's this for an analogy: It's as if the predators at the top of the "food chain" become so rapacious that they entirely eliminate their prey. The prey is gone, the predators have nothing left to eat, the whole system crumbles and becomes defunct. One other question: Am I mistaken, or is the plural of crisis, crises, not crisises?
Books by Mark Crispin Miller like FREE LUNCH explain this better. The current concentration of wealth matches that of 1929, what ex-Secretary of Labor Robert Reich calls the hourglass figure that squeezes out the middle. The sub-prime mortgages targeted the white working poor and minority middle class for fees fueled by mortgage-backed securities, thanks to artificially low interest rates that sent low-taxed money to dangerous investments. America needlessly lost $2T to tax cuts and $3T to illegally undeclared wars. Thom Hartmann is great, but the fix is in the Truman/Eisenhower income taxes of 90% on all money made at or above $5M/year where anything under $5M is at a normal 40% rate on the same person or corporation. That is what paid off the Second World War and the Korean War. The next surge should be in teachers and doctors and nurses and public defenders with living wages and forty-hour weeks without second or third jobs like NPR reported on 3/17/2005 in Argentina. America's neglect on MN's I-35 bridge and the New Orleans levees and the Deep Water Horizon rig have destroyed from within what terrorists, foreign and domestic, could not dent.
Reference was made to investors "preying" on the middle class luring them into houses they couldn't afford. Oh, please! How about blaming middle class house lust where middle income doofuses turn off their tiny, weak brains and go house shopping, mouths drooling, after watching the latest HGTV show. Maybe we need to have a Restoring Adult Responsibility rally at the Lincoln Memorial.
Capitalism itself is a fire, updrafting all value to those at the top. Notice how it also scorches the environment. Over time the conflagration intensifies until the fuel (human labor) is exhausted.
Capitalism "works" all too well and is not sustainable. Adjustments after the Great Depression began to control the draft and the embers became superheated. Deregulation over the last 40 years has melted the stove. People at the top will not share without forceful intervention.
An analogy - when you apply most of the fertilizer to the top leaves of the plant they grow overly lush - AND TOP HEAVY - the spindly underfed roots cannot sustain the the top leaves and eventually the pretty plant keels over under its own weight. Feed the roots for even strong growth throughout the entire plant and make sure to prune any overly lush growth at the top for a healthy, happy.
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Yesterday,.
"Booing would be a natural response" "It would be an honest response"
The mendacious "civility" ruse cynically promoted by the Democrats from last year must be one the most shamelessly hypocritical political gimmicks in modern times.
"Its not just a matter of doing a one-off"...."exactly"
Obama is skipping an appearance before the NAACP and sending Joe Biden. Is the campaign confident that all the potentially embarrassing gaffes will have no negative impact on a vote that seems to be taken for granted?
Exactly?
"The calculation" on the part of the Romney campaign in speaking to the NAACP was that Governor Romney was INVITED.
If the NAACP wished to bring Romney in front of the crowd just to boo him, then shame on them.
What I don't get is the sophisticated analysis from Celeste Headlee about whether Romney was really hoping to speak to a different audience altogether, and about which policy initiatives might appeal to -- or alternatively, offend -- the African-American elites at the NAACP meeting. Because if we reversed the scenaria, and if, say, President Obama was given equivalent treatment at something like a National Rifle Association convention, I don't think we'd be hearing any sophisticated analyses about Obama's dubious record on Second Amendment rights. Rather, we'd be getting a stinging and one-dimensional public radio lecture on "racism."
So, alleged bias against Republicans is racist? Yet more evidence that we don't know what that word means.
One scourge of the African-American community is abortion: 30% or so of children in that community are killed. President Obama is pro-abortion all the way, so he is no friend of the African-American community.
Apparently "civility" is a political one way street and giving an "honest response" is another political one way street for the media.
Political epiphanies are born out of events like this and some will quietly reject the patronizing performing Democrats engage in and see Romney as a serious and straight forward alternative to people who trusted Obama and feel betrayed and are hurting now because of his incompetence.
Romney was being his gentlemanly self and his record speaks for itself. So does Obama's record and the arrogant bravado of the media confident that they have ethnic groups pegged may cause some to challenge that smug prejudice at the polling booth.
mittens is a disingenuous boob who deserves to be booed.
any discriminating adult can determine that after 5 minutes of listening to the whispery, privileged language he uses to express himself.
At least he addressed.
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Los Angeles, Paris, Staples Center, the throne
Following a trend on the Watch the Throne tour of playing Ni**as in Paris, five and six times, Jay Z and Kanye West played the track a record number of nine times at their show in LA last night. Is this getting out of hand? Are they just being lazy? From the video it looks like it might just be really fun to be on stage during the explosive, laser-show break. Check it out:
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Wicked is delightful musical loosely based on the best selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. The musical, following Maguire's novel, is a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's classic story, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the point of view of the witches of Oz set mostly prior to Dorothy's arrival from Kansas.
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The leaders of seven core English cities have demanded a meeting with Eric Pickles after warning of a “looming financial crisis” as a result of spending cuts.
As the Communities Secretary announced cuts in local government grants ranging from three per cent to 8.7 per cent the city leaders claimed three years’ of cash squeezes would make it impossible to “protect vital services.”
The leaders of Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham and Newcastle said none of them were under the illusion about the need for spending reductions and efficiency savings.
“But the cuts we are now asked to make
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This is a true story of Sherlock Bones. The year 2013 will have to step up its game considerably to beat it.
Sherlock Bones (named changed to protect the innocent) is a dog. He could have been great. He could have been a contender. He could have been a top trail sniffer finding lost children, a watchdog extraordinaire, a defender of property, a military hero, a guide dog for the blind. Instead, he was forced into a sedentary life by doting owners whose budget allocated as much money for Sherlock’s sustenance as most families spend on two children. Between sumptuous meals he was plied with yummy treats. Initially, the treats were bribes to discourage him from eating toilet paper by the rolls. But, like most innocent habits, it became a spoiling necessity, an addiction.
If you start with treats, it’s only a skip and a jump to swiping tasty morsels from the table, raiding the kitchen counters, or trolling open cabinets or corners for errant foodstuffs. Sherlock Bones was an explorer as undaunted as the 15th century explorers who searched the vast seas to settle ancient curiosities.
So, having laid out the briefest sketch of Sherlock Bones, let’s turn attention to the mother and father of the home, Sherlock’s owners, who are just now looking in a mixture of curiosity and fear at poor Sherlock, lying on his back, in a flower bed, in a driving rain. His tongue and lungs appear the only parts of his anatomy that can move. One might speculate poor Sherlock was on track for the land where dogs can eat steak and all the toilet paper they desire for every meal. That place where the cars move slowly enough that even the chubbiest canine can catch and chew one for his own fun. Where sidewalks are lined by endless utility poles; where there are no leashes, no ground stakes, no fences or shock collars.
The mother makes exclamations and immediate prayers to deliver Sherlock from the arms of the Grim Reaper. She shouts at her husband to do something. His reluctance can be explained by the understanding that he saw Sherlock in this state when he arrived home and that he also suspects why he Sherlock is there. However, to give up his knowledge is to confess a careless wrong-doing. He suggests they leave Sherlock alone (“He’ll be OK. He’s just resting in the rain”), but without a degree in veterinary medicine to support ignoring the dog’s plight, there is nothing left but to put the wet canine on the leather seats of his expensive car and proceed posthaste to emergency treatment.
The ride to the vet’s office is filled with questions and recriminations. What has happened to our beloved Sherlock? Is it his heart? Poison from tainted meat? Did he ingest some foreign object like a pencil? Did he relapse on toilet paper? A stroke, perhaps?
The mother feels guilt, knowing she has fed Sherlock too many wrong things over the years. But she loves Sherlock and Sherlock loves her. He dotes on her, seeks refuge in her lap and growls if other members of the family try to trespass on his turf. It would be unfair to speculate at this critical moment on domestic relations. Suffice to say it’s been years since she fed treats to her husband or rubbed his belly until his tongue lolled out.
Today, however, not an hour before Sherlock’s inert form was discovered, she reveals to the vet, she spent a quarter of an hour cleaning chewed-up cellophane candy wrappers and dog slobber she found outside her husband’s den. Like a Navy SEAL, she surmised, Sherlock had conducted recon and discovered a stash of candies which he gobbled with great alacrity.
Now let us turn to the father’s heart which just now started beating a little faster upon confirmation of his fear that Sherlock got into his candy stash. Now’s the time to reveal to the reader that this was not just any candy. It was “special” candy, marijuana-laced candy that his wife knows nothing about. He had put some out on his unguarded desk preparatory to heading to a football game with his pals where he could get comfortably numb without fears of being discovered. One piece of candy makes you feel good. Two pieces make you want to jump down on the field and run a post pattern. Naked. He has never ventured three. Of the dozen he possessed, a majority now resides in Sherlock’s system.
This, the man reasons for self-preservation purposes, is not the time for revelations or confessions. It’s a time for subtle supplications and devising some cover story in the event his play is discovered.
Once the blood work is done, the vet announces the only anomaly he found in Sherlock was an unusually high THC count, the principal psychoactive ingredient of marijuana.
No one pleaded ignorance any better than the husband. He says he never did trust that boy dating his daughter and subtly suggests that suitor may be responsible for Sherlock’s troubles. With nothing else to go on, the puzzle remains.
Whether candies are now kept under lock and key (or removed from the den altogether) is unknown to me. By all accounts, Sherlock Bones is as well and happy as a $1,000-plus vet bill can assure. Plus, he seems to be a real fan of Pink Floyd now.
Jay Ashleyis managing editor of the Times-News. He remains pet-less at [email protected]
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A Grass Valley woman was arrested after she allegedly tried to pay for items with a counterfeit $100 bill, and was linked to a similar incident the week before.
An employee at a pharmacy in the 700 block of Sutton Way called to report trying to detain the woman at about 8:30 p.m. Monday, said Grass Valley Police Sgt. Joe Matteoni.
An officer responded, but the woman had already left after allegedly grabbing items and leaving the store. The employee told officers the counterfeiting was obvious, Matteoni said.
“It was a $5 bill that someone had tried to wash out.
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80 years of sci-fi space helmets in one video
Space helmets typically feature the same basic elements, but over the years different science fiction movies have managed to put their own unique stamps on the familiar design. As a tribute to this variety, Keith Melton has cut together helmets from a wide range of films into one short video — from modern movies like Moon and Sunshine all the way back to 1929's Woman in the Moon. It's a terrific way to look back at sci-fi cinema history, though as Melton points out, there are a few notable absences. He says that he forgot to include the likes of Serenity and Planet of the Apes, but there was one movie he left out on purpose — the 2009 reboot of Star Trek. Maybe the sequel will make its way into his next supercut.
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China Bar Signature Asian Buffet
222 Exhibition Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
+61 3 9078 9781
I am not a fan of buffet restaurants, however my parents love them. And because it was their birthday weekend way back in July (their birthdays are only three days apart), they decided that they wanted to go to a buffet restaurant for their birthday dinner.
We normally eat in the ‘burbs for these sorts of dinners as my parents are too lazy to drive into the city these days unless, of course, they really have to. However, my brother had to be at a certain place in the city at a certain time that Saturday night so the dinner had to be in the CBD. Eating at Crown or The Langham was a no go because parking cost too much and dad refused to pay. And if you thought that my parents would be open to my suggestion of parking at my secret free parking spot and tramming, then walking to Crown, then obviously you don’t know my parents very well.
In the end, we decided on the city brand of China Bar Signature, the younger sister of the already established buffet restaurant of the same name in Burwood East.
I may turn my nose up at buffet spreads with their limited variety and questionable freshness of food but I couldn’t help but utter an involuntary ‘wah!’ when I saw the spread here.
PRAWNS!
And so the carnage began. My family and I were led to a table in a not-so-central area where the only way we could see what we were eating was via a spatter of meek red lights. For $69 a head (which, according to my parents, was ‘wah, so expensive!’), we feasted on an array of seafood items, dumplings, rice dishes, fried and steamed proteins of various kinds and lots and lots of desserts. The food was essentially the same as what we had during at lunch at the Burwood East branch all these years ago but obviously with more variety (given that it was dinner and we were, of course, paying double).
I started off with some roast meats. The roast chicken and duck are what China Bar franchises all over town do pretty well and the ones I tried on the night were no exception. Both the chicken and duck meat were juicy and the skins crispy like awesomeness. I wasn’t expecting much from the Peking duck so I was surprised when I realised that it was actually not half bad; in fact, it was pretty damn tasty.
The steamed dim sum at China Bar are usually reliable. Although you would undoubtedly be able to find better har gow or siu mai dumplings in Melbourne, it’s hard not to go into a China Bar Signature restaurant without picking up at least a couple of steamers of dim sum.
If there weren’t heaps of other dishes to try, I would have picked up $69 worth of siu mai, har gow and scallop dumplings. Unfortunately, I had to limit myself to one of each (well okay, I did have two har gow steamers).
I picked up what I reckon was China Bar’s version of a mini hybrid claypot and Taiwanese three-cup chicken. The chicken thighs were served with Chinese sausage and ginger on rice and steamed in a small bamboo steamer. It wasn’t the best rendition of this dish but I was happy with the size of this dish – it didn’t fill us up but it was enough to give us a fair sample.
Of course, no visit to a buffet restaurant is complete without trying a few deep-fried goodies. I had the prawn wrapped in fried beancurd, crumbed prawns, pork dumplings and a fried prawn ball coated with almonds, all of which actually tasted decent. To make myself feel healthier though, I also grabbed some slices of salmon sashimi and a grilled salmon sushi. I was also pleased to see more unusual forms of sashimi available such as the ark shell sashimi (which I had a little bit of, but undecided that I wasn’t a huge fan of because of the too-crunchy texture).
We shared a plate of sautéed greens to make ourselves feel even better.
We then worked our way through the richer dishes. By this stage, we were starting to fill up so we could only afford to have bite-sized portions of everything. The stuff I sampled (pineapple fried rice, fried quail, fish in ginger and spring onion sauce amongst other things) were actually better than the stuff you find at your local Smorgy’s – it was fresher, hotter and ‘less artificial-tasting.’ You won’t expect hatted cuisine here but I’m quietly confident that everyone can find at least one dish that they would be happy with here.
Their chawanmushi (Japanese steamed egg custard) with shitake mushrooms, chestnut and prawns was okay. It wasn’t the best I’ve had, but I was glad to see it being offered. Not pictured was the shark fin soup that my parents and I shared. While we suspect that fake shark fin was used, we were nevertheless happy to treat ourselves to a bowl.
Once we decided that we had enough savoury dishes, we went straight for dessert. A waitress then asked us if we could like a soufflé. We didn’t see any soufflés in the dessert cabinet so we guessed that they were made to order. My sister and I decided that we’d share a soufflé, so we requested a chocolate one. Big mistake. The soufflé did not even have a ‘rise’ and it was very dense and egg-y, rather than soft and fluffy. The chocolate sauce that was poured into the make-shift hole on top didn’t really do much to improve its taste either. Next time, we’ll be saying ‘no.’
Dad decided to go all Masterchef -y with his desserts. He had a chocolate macaron (‘not that nice’), a bit of croquembouche and some mango jelly. His favourite dessert, however, was the tau foo fah which he kept having seconds of.
I had a coconut jelly topped with kiwi fruit, a green tea mousse, a honeydew sago pudding and a crème brulee that had not been blow-torched. All, except for the crème brulee, were better than okay and were portioned perfectly so that we could spare room in our tummies for other desserts.
I should also mention that the city restaurant has a second storey where more food is located. Given how full I was, I never got around to venturing upstairs but from what my brother told me, it’s a haven for hot pot and grilled meat lovers.
My parents had a ball during dinner and even I had to admit that it wasn’t so bad. My mum is already in talks about taking her sister there the next time she’s visiting the country (i.e. next year) while dad was quick to recommend China Bar Signature to his friends. While my parents weren’t fawning over lunch at the Burwood East restaurant, they definitely did enjoy dinner at the city branch. They couldn’t stop raving about the food after we had left, and even stopped making disparaging comments about how ‘expensive’ the whole thing was (of course you would if you were being shouted dinner!).
I may be a buffet restaurant hater but if I had to recommend a buffet restaurant in the city, I’d recommend this one. I like that it’s in a convenient location and that they serve a great variety of food for the price charged per head (if you wish to pay less, weekday dinners are $55 and lunches are even cheaper but with less variety). While I won’t be coming here every second weekend, I will not be quick to say ‘no’ should I get invited to eat here further down the track.
EmSeptember 7, 2012 at 17:38 (253 days ago)
I don’t like buffets either, and I work next door to the Burwood branch. Been there twice for lunch and have not enjoyed it. Maybe dinner, or the city branch is better….Reply
libishskiSeptember 8, 2012 at 11:07 (252 days ago)
Everyone I’ve spoken to (who’s been to these restaurants) have said that dinner is much better than lunch. Whether or not you’re willing to fork out $55-69 per head, though, is the issue…
I wouldn’t do it all the time but if it’s my parents’ birthday, Mother’s/Father’s Day and they really wanted to go, I’d be happy to take them
Choc Chip UruSeptember 7, 2012 at 19:40 (253 days ago)
I love buffets but only occasionally – though I could see myself going here often
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AmesSeptember 7, 2012 at 19:41 (253 days ago)
We’ve been to the Burwood branch a number of times (we being “avec le parents” lol) and quite like it so I’m sure the parents would enjoy giving the city branch a try sometime! I’m not a fan of buffets either but I do like the variety that they have at the Burwood branch so glad to hear the city one isn’t half badReply
Ming @ sweetandsourforkSeptember 7, 2012 at 20:07 (253 days ago)
I remember reading your review on the China Bar in burwood, and thinking ‘HAH, my parents are exactly the same’ – looks like some (asian) thing never change! I’m surprised you didn’t indulge in the chocolate fountain, surely it’s there at night too? Did you try anything from the stone grill and hot pot? I went at lunch so I couldn’t, wahhhhReply
libishskiSeptember 8, 2012 at 11:16 (252 days ago)
Oh yes! There was a chocolate fountain too but I didn’t touch it as I’m not a huge fan of chocolate hahaha.
I didn’t try anything from the stone grill or hot pot – I’m guessing that you’d need to go upstairs for those and unfortunately, I never ventured upstairs that night. There was just too much food on the main level!
Ming @ sweetandsourforkSeptember 11, 2012 at 21:12 (249 days ago)
Not a chocolate fan! I’ve been stalking you for years (this is my creeper moment, DON’T JUDGE), how have I not picked that up? I know you love salt though :3
libishskiSeptember 13, 2012 at 15:57 (247 days ago)
Flattered! And yep, salt is the best thing ever (well, in my opinion anyway!
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yummychunkletSeptember 7, 2012 at 22:23 (253 days ago)
That looks like a great buffet! My parents love them as well.Reply
libishskiSeptember 8, 2012 at 11:17 (252 days ago)
Haha man, what is it with parents and buffets!
ironchefshellieSeptember 7, 2012 at 22:47 (253 days ago)
lol they should go to the Melba Restaurant on a sunday… it’s like $90.. that’s ‘Wah so expensive’
I still want to try China Bar Buffet, not usually a buffet person either, but it’s worth a shot!Reply
libishskiSeptember 8, 2012 at 11:18 (252 days ago)
I did suggest Melba but they whinged about parking prices in that area but yes, they would have been all ‘wah so expensive’ about Melba as well!
Lorraine @ Not Quite NigellaSeptember 7, 2012 at 23:15 (253 days ago)
Hehe I swear that we must share the same parents!Reply
Sophie Wang (@aecliss)September 8, 2012 at 01:06 (253 days ago)
Upstairs isn’t so great – some roast meats, although you can ask them to roast some mussels up for you too.
Glad you liked the desserts more than I did – I didn’t have the best experience with desserts there, but hey, willing to give them a second chanceReply
libishskiSeptember 8, 2012 at 11:19 (252 days ago)
Ah, good to know that I didn’t really miss out on much
I think I was just lucky with my dessert selection though – some of them did look a bit dodgy (didn’t touch them, phew) and I’m never getting the creme brulee or souffle again!
squishymonsterSeptember 8, 2012 at 02:47 (253 days ago)
I can completely relate–my parents LOVE buffets. Me, not so much but I’d be ecstatic to come to something like this!!Reply
Asmita (@FoodieAsmita)September 8, 2012 at 04:05 (253 days ago)
This is a real spread. I know I would be very happy girl feasting on all these wonderful dishes.Reply
IVOR BENNETSeptember 8, 2012 at 09:07 (252 days ago)
Most of all i like your folks attitude and comments [in a nice way!] …GOLD!Reply
samiati7September 9, 2012 at 11:46 (251 days ago)
How does this compare to ‘mesh’ at Crown?
I found your blog by googling “the very hungry caterpillar in Indonesian”. I now follow your blog!Reply
libishskiSeptember 10, 2012 at 14:46 (250 days ago)
I’ve never been to Mesh so I can’t compare. If you do prefer Asian food, you’ll definitely like Chinabar Signature though.
And what a coincidence, I happen to be Indonesian too!
winstonthehungryexcavatorSeptember 9, 2012 at 19:00 (251 days ago)
Ahhhhh very helpful review, Lib. I love this. I’ve been wondering how this place fairs for a while, glad I came to your blog. You really are the queen of buffets in the blogosphere, IMO. Haha. And omg at the price! For some reason I always thought that it was in the $30++ range since it was Chinese. Sooo naive. But guess if you got other stuff like sashimi and prawns, it wouldn’t really be fair to them. I agree, variety does look pretty satisfying and good location too. Maybe drop by for a special occasion. Or if it’s cheaper for lunch hahaReply
libishskiSeptember 10, 2012 at 14:40 (250 days ago)
Yeah, it’s $30-40ish for lunch but there isn’t as much food (so, not as much seafood)
theragingcookSeptember 10, 2012 at 09:52 (250 days ago)
Bah I’m missing out! Only been to them for lunchReply
Kambrook (@KambrookAU)September 10, 2012 at 15:45 (250 days ago)
For a buffet, the place looks fantastic.Reply
Kimba's KitchenSeptember 10, 2012 at 16:48 (250 days ago)
I LOVE buffets, but only buffets that offer decent food and a HUGE variety. Nothing annoys me more than a so-called All-You-Can-Eat and only less than 15 dishes to choose from. In Melbourne, definitely Melba @ Langham and yessss China Bar Signature!! I completely stuffed myself the last time I went in Burwood.. ate lots of fresh oysters, and sashimi (that was my “entree” and I’m pretty sure I already ate half the price I paid for by then, lol) and then everything else … it is the most amazing Asian buffet ever and I cannot wait to go back when the opportunity presents itself.
Oh, and back in Malaysia I used to go to a Chicken Buffet as a child which started my whole craze for buffets… can you imagine All-You-Can-Eat fried chicken??? Lol!!
PS your parents are so funny, they remind me of my parents haha!Reply
libishskiSeptember 13, 2012 at 15:57 (247 days ago)
I would love to try this chicken buffet!
thehungerpangsSeptember 10, 2012 at 21:43 (250 days ago)
My parents are exactly the same, haha. Had dinner at the China Bar in Burwood a while back and was pleasantly surprised, so I’ll keep the CBD branch in mindReply
Daisy@NevertoosweetSeptember 11, 2012 at 00:40 (250 days ago)
Great write up LibbyReply
i’ve gone to Signature Dishes China Bar a few times and I feel the same way you do ~ for the price you pay the food there is decent and wow they even have macarons now?! I’ve also heard the one in the city serves better food than the one in Burwood, either way I hope they have better service at the one in the city. Cuz last time I went to the one in Burwood they were kinda rude and wanted us to leave at 9:45pm…even though they said they close at 10:30pm
libishskiSeptember 13, 2012 at 16:20 (247 days ago)
Haha yeah, but they were crappy macarons though.
Regardless, we all did enjoy our meal at the city restaurant more than the Burwood East one. And yes, very stupid of them to say that they were open until 10:30pm only to shoo you away at 9:45pm. Ridiculous!
mercadeoSeptember 11, 2012 at 05:44 (250 days ago)
This is a wonderful Asian buffet restaurant. It includes things like beautiful fresh prawns and other seafood, sushi, curries and just about everything else you can think of. We went for dinner, and provided you are very hungry, $50 per head (plus drinks) is pretty good value. I recommend booking a table with chairs, as opposed to the white leather couches on the periphery, as it is a bit of a pain when you’re sitting near the aisle and others want to get in and out all the time. By the way, the plates aren’t large, so be aware that you’ll need to go back to the buffet several times if you’re really hungry.Reply
CatherineSeptember 11, 2012 at 10:48 (249 days ago)
The range looks fantastic although I never go to buffets as I can never eat that much and it’s such a waste for me!Reply
ChopinandMysaucepanSeptember 12, 2012 at 12:20 (248 days ago)
Dear Libby,
I am not a fan of buffet either as overeating is an obvious tendency. But I would make an exception to buffet spreads in some hotels in Singapore which have some of the most awesome variety of local delights.Reply
libishskiSeptember 13, 2012 at 16:00 (247 days ago)
My Singaporean friends like to talk about the Shangri-La one – is that one that I should try if I’m in Singapore? Where else should we go to?
Adrian Briones (@food_rehab)September 12, 2012 at 13:16 (248 days ago)
I went here with a big group and it was actually pretty good! And for lunch, dirt cheap esp when you have little kiddies with you. Love the location too. I am too a little cagey when it comes t buffets (except Melbas) but I will be back.Reply
hotlyspicedSeptember 12, 2012 at 14:24 (248 days ago)
I tend not to like buffet restaurants also because the food is usually inferior as it has to sit out for hours and so nothing arrives on your plate ‘just cooked’. But having said that, the variety of what you were offered amazes me xxReply
Jenny @ Ichigo ShortcakeSeptember 14, 2012 at 16:19 (246 days ago)
I don’t really like buffets either, unless if it’s at some super fancy 5 star hotel.Reply
My family used to eat at buffets a lot but not anymore, none of us have big enough appetites to make it worth it and the food’s usually not that good anyway. I drive past this place SO much but have never gone in! Good to know it’s not bad, maybe we’ll try it some time too.
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Meet the Waterworks Farm Animals
The Waterworks would not be complete without our friendly farm animals. We’ve got hens, ducks, peacocks and Kune Kune pigs. You are welcome to feed them.
The Kune Kune pig
Kune Kune are a small pig. Their name is pronounced "Cooney Cooney", and means fat and round in Maori. They did not originate in New Zealand, as there are no indigenous land animals here. There are many theories on how they got here:
Maori may have brought them here as the pig was very important to Polynesians,
Early whalers and sealers may have brought them to be released to breed and culled for food on their next voyage,
Or they could well have been brought to New Zealand by early settlers who had come to farm.
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We have about 30 chickens that live at The Waterworks – they are all shapes, sizes and colours. We feed them everyday and collect their eggs, which we use for our café / restaurant.
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Recently introduced to our garden, they have been a colorful addition to our surroundings. Come and feed them and delight in their elegant presence.
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We have white Peking, Muscovy and wild ducks. With lots of water at the park we are a welcome stop for them and they know they will always get fed!
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It looks as though Chelsea seem to be handling it well, so maybe they will get to the final.
Torres has just paid off his £50m fee
...Brilliant Chelsea ..Barcelona - Chumps with a capital C
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Proud of them. Strangely glad that Terry wont play in the final only because of what he stands for
Disappointed really as I was hoping that Barcelona with all its finesse, would grace the Champions League final.
True it would be a good point, a perfect marker for his career, not.
When they cannot beat a 10 man Chelsea??!! Said it all before - very pretty, but finesse alone doesn't win you games.A thoroughly deserved win for Chelsea, and let's not forget they conceded TWO goals to a 10 man side. CHUMPS .... and regardless of what you think of Terry - He WILL receive a medal if they take the trophy
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If I knew in advance that Chelsea were going to win the CL Spurs may as well forfeit their remaining games and send the players on their hols.
Chelsea haven't won the CL yet - they have some of their best players out of the final because of bookings and there is the little matter of facing Bayern Munich (at home) or Real Madrid.
However, fair play to Chelsea - a sterling performance - they got through despite Barcelona winning a predictable penalty which Messi missed
Anyone want to hear Gary Neville orgasm? (not my video)
There you go!
I don't feel too well now
As someone said elsewhere, Gary Neville probably had his longest w@ak ever before shooting his load after Torres scored.
Indeed. And they won't be parking the bus like they had to this evening. Assuming Real get to the final I think they'll tear Chelsea a new one.
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Hats off to Chelsea, a resolute and determined performance that showed everything that has been lacking from Tottenham these last few months. With any luck Harry will show them the video and tell them to grow some "balls" for the remaining four games of the season and get back to the kind of form that got everyone talking earlier in the season!!
I can understand why you want the Chavs to win the CL. And it's a perfectly legitimate reason too.
[quote=wallaw;323610]How absolutely wonderful and amazing and utterly brilliant would it be if Chelsea finally win the champions league and terry didn't get a medal. Pmsl at the very thought.[/quote]
Odious chunt he is
If I was a Chelsea fan I'd be hoping that Real get into the final instead of Bayern. I know that man for man Real are probably the better side but I can well imagine what that stadium will be like on the night on the final should the Germans reach it; Munich's version of the San Siro probably.
Of course there would be an advantage as it would be their home ground. But on the stands it would be different. The ticketing for these Euro finals is worse than the FA Cup. By the time all of the neutrals and the UEFA / FIFA officials have taken their chunk what is left for the supporters of the two sides is usually small! Chelsea should in theory get the same number of supporters tickets as Bayern fans, should they reach the final of course.
I remember tryng to get tickets for the UEFA Cup fianl in 2007, there were only 12,000 tickets per club that year for supporters!!!!!! I was lucky as I entered a ballot and got a couple in a 'neutral area'.
I remember the game well, sitting in a bar in Cyprus and witnessing Shhhteeve being tactically outdone by the soon-to-useless Ramos. The F.A. really should have factored this game in before giving him the England job.
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^He works at Epic Games in Cary.
11/11/2011 12:14:30 AM
Yeah, thats where I got the pic from.
11/11/2011 12:26:28 AM
Ugh, seeing that car makes me cry (not in a good way either)
11/11/2011 9:26:05 AM
yeah i hate stacked exhaust and almost everything else about the styling of those cars.
11/11/2011 11:40:15 AM
11/11/2011 6:26:34 PM
saw this bad boy in the Starbucks parking lot in Brier Creek (Walmart side)[Edited on November 14, 2011 at 5:34 PM. Reason : s]
11/14/2011 3:26:16 PM
asshole double parked...
11/14/2011 3:34:48 PM
its not a Gallardo...Murcielargo...or Elemento....WTF model is it?
11/14/2011 5:30:07 PM
here are a couple more pics...is it the Aventador with modified intake scoops?
11/14/2011 5:36:39 PM
nah...not the Aventador...but close
11/14/2011 5:37:33 PM
Lololololol
11/14/2011 6:13:57 PM
11/14/2011 6:48:32 PM
why is that mercialago's scoops stuck open ?
11/14/2011 7:17:16 PM
hahaha what a fucking tool with that license plateand "DICKS" in the background was very appropriatesomething tells me the driver might be gay
11/14/2011 7:37:04 PM
i used to have a 1988 mazda 323 hatchback. would have fit nicely in the remainder of that spot (on drivers side of course.
11/14/2011 9:40:23 PM
there are a lot of ironies around that lambo photo... but knowing where he parked, that really is a dick move... barely anywhere to park in that area a lot of the time
11/14/2011 10:24:15 PM
sparky...how can you not recognize a Murcielago? One of the top supercars for 7 years or so!I would double park too...but if that's a small lot without a lot of spaces then you just need to suck it up and take one spot like everyone else.[Edited on November 14, 2011 at 11:42 PM. Reason : k]
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11/15/2011 2:45:41 AM
^They're also only making around 10 and they are not street legal...anywhere.
11/15/2011 8:00:01 AM
11/15/2011 10:07:44 AM
I know it's worthless without pics, but I saw a MB SLS the other day. First time I saw one on the road, and it sounded sexy as hell. Some older lady was driving it.
11/15/2011 11:12:48 AM
Saw a Jensen Interceptor this morning...on a trailer...with significant front end damage. Very sad sight.One of these:
11/15/2011 12:53:30 PM
^ I like those.Saw today within minutes of each other:Murcielago LP670 SV458 ItaliaRR Ghost
11/25/2011 5:54:41 PM
Ferrari 430 in Alamance co:
11/26/2011 2:50:19 PM
Saw a Bentley in Gastonia yesterday.
11/26/2011 3:37:09 PM
At home with the parents in Chagrin Falls (super yuppie, niche suburb): GT3 driven by a 20 somethingMurcielago powered by a major midlife crisisAnd while not remotely exotic, I saw my first TTS (never see these in OH)
11/26/2011 8:06:02 PM
White SLS in Avent Ferry shopping center.
11/28/2011 11:55:57 AM
RIP Maybach
11/28/2011 3:31:21 PM
haha damn, what car is jay-z going to put in his concert riders now?oh...nvm
11/28/2011 3:58:45 PM
12/3/2011 5:05:49 AM
^Wow is that an original Motorola RAZR camera phone?
12/3/2011 8:07:30 PM
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12/5/2011 10:07:10 AM
New Rolls Royce drophead convertible, 2 Rolls Royce Phantom sedans, 2 Bentley sedans and one Continental coupe, 5 Maybach 62s and one Porsche 911 GT3 RS while I was in Manhattan recently.I wonder how that 911 GT3 RS's ride is in the city. Yowza!
12/5/2011 11:25:08 AM
Watch out for potholes, might get stuck in one
12/5/2011 11:28:33 AM
i saw a gt3 (no rs ) in brier creek this weekend. either that or an s4 with a body kit. (s models, turbos and gts are the only ones with the big hips right?)
12/5/2011 11:46:08 AM
Yeah as far as I know.^^no joke. Mid-town isn't that bad (where I saw it off Park Ave) however the Financial district looks like a war zone. Seemed like I was in Kosovo.
12/5/2011 12:22:48 PM
Did you occupy wall st? i did about 14 months ago... st. holiday in that is....
12/5/2011 1:34:50 PM
lolI took a photo of Zuccoti park on Friday. Hardly anyone was around there anymore. And then on Sunday when we left we were stuck an intersection on Boardway b/c some "Occupier" protesters were marching down the street. Most of the signs demanded free healthcare. I guess there was only about 100 of them so it was just a slight delay for us.
12/5/2011 2:05:44 PM
I think if you hit them fast enough... it would have just felt like the ripple strips on the side of the road.
12/5/2011 2:22:57 PM
^a-bunch, ha, it's actually an original droid...give me another week for the galaxy nexus so I can get my exotic car creep on
12/5/2011 7:59:06 PM
Saw a BMW 1 M Coupe yesterday while driving home on I-40. I wouldn't really consider it an "exotic" but since only 1,000 are being sold in the US I would consider it rare.It's the first time I've seen one in person. The M treatment definitely made it look more masculine and aggressive but it's still an ugly stumpy car.
12/6/2011 11:26:11 AM
For sale at Anchor Auto in Fuquay ($23,990). I thought for sure it was a kit car everytime I passed it
12/6/2011 6:05:10 PM
ooh the new Maserati Banana GT
12/6/2011 7:05:11 PM
if it's an 06 or older I would stay away from it if I were you :p
12/6/2011 7:05:36 PM
Sucks that we never got the boomerang taillights on the 3200GT. Not a bad-looking car, sure, but not as attractive as most of its competitors.The Gran Turismo on the other hand. Daaaaaamn.
12/6/2011 7:26:50 PM
I wonder how you get that license platePlate said - RAINMAKER
12/12/2011 10:44:32 PM
in a lot of states (NC included) the governor's personal vehicle gets plate #1, lieutenant gov plate #2, and so on through the cabinet. IIRC form when I worked in the state legislature, the Speaker had plate #3 and the Senate President Pro Tempore had #4? I forget. It was a while ago, but that's generally "how you get that plate"
12/13/2011 11:45:07 AM
^yes but those plates also have the state seal or something on them usually to denote a government plate.
12/13/2011 11:56:00 AM
you're thinking of legislators.they get district plates based on their district numberi used to work for the house speaker and his jag at the time was just "3"
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Mr. Smick is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of Johnson Smick International, Inc., a financial market advisory
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Former President Bill Clinton called The
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The day after "The Help" won three SAG Awards, the Writers Guild of America, West has added to its awards haul by naming its writer-director Tate Taylor recipient of the 2012 Paul Selvin Award.
The Selvin Award was established to honor work "which embodies the spirit of constitutional rights and civil liberties," according to the WGAW press release. Last year's winners were Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth for "Fair Game."
Other recipients have included Michael Mann, Eric Roth and Dustin Lance Black.
“Tate Taylor’s adapted screenplay for 'The Help' artfully distills the empowering essence and core emotional truths of Kathryn Stockwell’s novel, translating it into a film that forcefully illustrates how ordinary people can impact positive social change," said WGAW president Christopher Keyser in announcing the award.
The award will be presented at the Writers Guild Awards' West Coast ceremony on February 19 at the Hollywood Palladium.
"The Help" is also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay by the WGA, where it will be competing with "The Descendants," "Moneyball," "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and "Hugo."
Perhaps surprisingly, it did not receive an Oscar nomination for its screenplay.
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The Twitter effect never was.
The wrong kinds of movies are being made in 3D.
Closing the release window isn’t going to bring back the glory days of theatrical releases.
These are just a few examples of conventional wisdom that have little basis in reality, according to a new study of 24,000 moviegoers by research firm Ipsos OTX MediaCT released at TheGrill conference on Tuesday.
“In this business we spin ourselves into perceptions that aren’t real,” Vincent Bruzzese, president of the worldwide motion picture group, told TheWrap. “They echo through the hallways of this industry, but the facts don’t support the claims.”
In a blow to Twitter fans, the study found that the box-office impact of the social networking service has been wildly overinflated. Many industry analysts have stated that the performance of surprise hits such as “The Blind Side” and “The Karate Kid” is attributable to the good buzz they received on Twitter.
“It isn’t to say that Twitter isn’t popular or an effective social network, but the mantra in the industry about a ‘Twitter effect’ really stands for word of mouth. It is not driven by or consisting of Twitter, and in fact it is one of the least used methods and one of least influential in letting people know about movie opinions,” Bruzzese said.
Despite the advent of the social media revolution, one of the primary sources for recommendations is still face-to-face encounters. Some 48 percent of those surveyed said that they receive the bulk of their information about movies from friends or family. Following that the next most likely source of recommendations are co-workers (16 percent),
Of social-media sites, Facebook exerts more influence than Twitter. Posts and status updates on Facebook account for 11 percent of movie recommendations, according to the survey. Twitter and its much vaunted “effect” only accounts for 1 percent.
When it comes to Twitter, 46 percent of those surveyed said tweets from people they didn't know was unlikely to influence whether they saw a movie. Even tweets from people they did know had little impact on their moviegoing decisions, with nearly 40 percent saying they were not likely to go to a movie based on tweets from people they were friends with.
"Most people who talk about a Twitter effect have never experienced it themselves," Bruzzese said.
When it comes to learning about upcoming movies, commercials and previews are far and away the major source of information for moviegoers. Over 60 percent of those surveyed said that was where they discovered upcoming releases.
As for windowing, the cratering DVD market and the declines in moviegoer attendance, as the average audience has shrunk by 10 percent since 2002, have led to various experiments with delays on when rental companies such as Netflix can offer new releases. But these don't seem to be extending a movie's theatrical run or adding much in the way of revenue.
Indeed, box-office results are becoming increasingly front loaded, while the average gross in subsequent weekends is declining dramatically. Put simply, the people who want to see a movie are doing it during its opening weekend, while others are waiting until it comes onto DVD or Blu-ray.
“Closing the window isn’t stopping things. VOD is taking revenue and shifting it. There is a net gain of zero, and you’re not adding people,” Bruzzese said.
In this froth of change, theater owners and studios have looked to 3D as the antidote to an increasingly dire economic picture. But they seem to be using the new technology incorrectly, out of a misguided assumption that people want to see dimensionality in the service of story, not simply to have cool things jump out of the screen.
In a blow to those arguments, 74 percent of people surveyed said they want to have thing coming out at them.
“We’ve become disconnected to what moviegoers perceive as adding to the story. In action movies and fantasy they want the effect of something leaping out at them. They’re getting it in 3D horror movies, but they’re not in animated family films,” Bruzzese said.
Another issue is that there is an appetite for 3D in the market, but there are not enough of the kinds of films being made that people want to see in three dimensions.
The top genres that moviegoers want to see in 3D are fantasy (57 percent), action (55 percent), science fiction (52 percent), and adventure (52 percent). Despite that, only 20 percent of the movies made in 3D are from those genres.
One perception that is entirely accurate is that people hate wearing the funny spectacles, according to Bruzzese. Four out of 10 of those surveyed said that they didn't like glasses.
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"The Office" star/writer/producer/director Mindy Kaling's new book "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)" is the exact mixture of memoir and list-y humor you'd expect from the writer of such "Office" episodes as "The Dundies," "The Injury" and "Niagara."
Among the topics in her quick, breezy book: Her lifelong weight-loss battle, her desire for a pseudonym, and her method of educating herself about Hollywood (the movies and TV section of Barnes & Noble).
She also talks about her sometimes emotional days at "The Office."
Also read: Maura Tierney to Guest-Star on 'The Office'
A few excerpts:
On the "general meeting" in Hollywood: "It essentially means 'I am curious about you, but I don't want to have a meal with you, and I want there to be little expectation of any tangible outcome from our meeting.' … These meetings are fun if you like chatting, which I do, but frustrating if you like moving forward with your life, which I also do. But usually you get a free bottle of water."
Things she didn't call her book: "The Book That Was Never a Blog," "When Your Boyfriend Fits Into Your Jeans and Other Atrocities" and "I Don't Know How She Does It, But I Suspect She Gets Help from Illegal Immigrants."
On her unusual celebrity crushes when she was six: "At the age of six, the criteria for handsome was, simply, 'Is he not related to me?' and 'Have I seen him on television?' That was it. By this standard, Larry Bird, Dick Clark, Andy Rooney. All handsome guys."
On how "Law & Order: SVU" deters her from ever having a one-night stand: ."
Also read: Darrell Hammond Describes Drug Abuse, Cutting, Leaving 'SNL' in a Strait Jacket
On her love of chest hair, sparked by a Pierce Brosnan pool scene in "Mrs. Doubtfire": "It was a minor sexual awakening. During 'Mrs. Doubtfire.' Not a movie often cited for its idealized depiction of traditional masculinity."
On Bill Hader, gestating feline: During a brief stint as a guest writer on "Saturday Night Live," Kaling wrote a skit for Bill Hader, in which he was to play a pregnant cat. The skit did not make it onto the show.
Her favorite comedy moments ever: They include "Fun Run," "The Office" episode where Michael runs over Meredith, Chris Farley as motivational speaker Matt Foley on "SNL," the racial draft sketch on "Chappelle's Show," and the Christopher drug intervention scene from "The Strong, Silent Type" episode of "The Sopranos."
On her plans for her funeral: The dress code will be "chic devastated" and everyone will receive gift bags.
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Near the end of The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci, Joe Torre and Yankee General Manager Brian Cashman discuss the use of statistics in building a team. Since the annual publication of resources such as The Bill James Handbook, which provides past season statistics and next-year projections, baseball teams, more and more, are being built by the numbers. Bill James currently advises the Boston Red Sox, who have won two world championships during the last six years, so Cashman’s interest is understandable. Torre has not held the same view. (more…)
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We are proud having the Absolute team as our retail partners at the XC.
Situated just inside the main entrance, you'll find nothing but the best merchandise from all of the industries' most respected brands. Whether you're a seasoned pro or complete novice, they've got all the equipment you need for any of our sports plus a comprehensive range of spare parts, accessories, stickers, shoes, clothing and fashion items. Short of a birthday present or Christmas gift idea? Check out their websites for inspiration. Not sure what to buy, or spoilt for choice? Pop in for a friendly chat and impartial advice from the experts. Pump your tyres or tighten your trucks – the Absolute team are here to help.
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Foreign National Prisoners
Oral Answers to Questions — Justice
11:30 am
Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent, Labour)
How many foreign national prisoners were repatriated to their home country to serve their custodial sentence in 2011.
Chris Grayling (Epsom and Ewell, Conservative).
Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent, Labour)?
Chris Grayling (Epsom and Ewell, Conservative).
Philip Hollobone (Kettering, Conservative)
Will my right hon. Friend make it a departmental priority to negotiate compulsory prisoner transfer agreements with Commonwealth member countries, especially Nigeria and Jamaica, which seem to be the source of most of the foreign national offenders in our prisons?
Chris Grayling (Epsom and Ewell, Conservative)
I can give my hon. Friend an absolute assurance to that effect. The prisons Minister—my hon. Friend.
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Health
John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health
(1) which organisations her Department consulted on the contract notice 2006-05 114-121806;
(2) why the contract notice 2006-05 114-121806 published in the Official Journal of the European Union was withdrawn; and whether she intends to submit a revised contract notice.
Andy Burnham (Minister of State (Delivery and Quality), Department of Health; Leigh, Labour)
The advertisement in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) was withdrawn and a revised advertisement submitted on
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We did not consult with external organisations prior to issuing the OJEU because one of the main purposes of such an advertisement is to elicit responses from interested organisations.
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I've had a bit of boring sewing to do lately. Mainly replacing the elastic in all of my cloth nappies. I've got about 25, so that's 50 bits of elastic! Of course, the unpicking takes twice as long as sewing it back on. I think I've still got 7 nappies to go.
To reward myself for my efforts so far, I thought I'd do some fun sewing! This project has been on my to-do list for a while. Roman loved to be swaddled as a baby. We didn't have anything like this, and would just wrap him up in blankets...he could bust out within a minute! I didn't want that to happen this time around, so made up one of these. I've heard great things about them from other Mums and I'm keen to give it a try when the new bub comes along.
I used this tutorial and free pattern from Sugar Tart Crafts. It looks much cuter with a bub swaddled inside it, don't you think?
I love the 2 way zipper...such a clever idea! I tried to get it work with some continuous zip tape, but had no luck. I bought a 16" zipper and a second 5" one just for the pull. I think the pattern says to get 2 long ones, but there's really no need as all you want off the second one is the metal pull. Making the 2 way zip was easy with the 16" zip. I think it needed the nicely finished ends on it to get the pulls to slide on.
Because it's coming up to Winter here, I lined the Swaddler. To do that, I just cut all the pieces out twice, once for the inner, once for the outer. It changed the construction order a bit, but otherwise worked great. If only I was tiny enough to hop inside and test it out!
I still want to make one more for when this gets covered in dribbly little baby gifts and needs to go in the wash.
That looks so cozy! Great job. I used a grow bag until my kid was two and it was hard to let them go.
Roman is still in grobags! The last ones I made will fit him until he's at least 3. I have no idea what to do when he grows out of them!
I sold mine on a popular second-hand listing site here in Canada. I still feel a little sad about it though! They were such a big part of our lives and it was one of the first things I figured out how to sew. (I do have some blog pictures of them here: which makes me feel a little bit better!)
It's an excellent question though: what do we do with all of this beautiful handmade stuff when it's useful no more?
This project has to go on my to-do list for my baby bump! Love the 2 zipper thing. Thanks for the link... I shall pop over now and check out the tute ;-)
I wish I had seen this before I bought all those Ergo pouches! So much cuter!!!
My second baby loved the peanut swaddle (and I really wish we had it for my first). Yours turned out adorable. Can't wait to see it filled!
This is so cute and I bet you'll be so glad you made it. Also, you'll be able to make him blend in if you wear your dress in the same fabric :)
So sweet!! That little guy is going to be swaddled in style. Can't wait to see him in it.
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Former Nigeria captain, Sunday Oliseh has advised Cameroon not to make the same mistake that plunged Nigerian football into its present depths following reports of the long ban on Samuel Eto’O and his teammates.
Oliseh told SuperSport.com that “Cameroon is making the same mistake because at the time in 2002 when Nigeria toed the same path, there was no social media and for the most part, it was the version of the Football Association that was known to the public and the media. It's a lot different now and in time, a lot will emerge and the loser will be Cameroon football.”
“They have a precedent in front of them and they have to be smart about it. My advice is that they can still reverse the decision and try to find a way to unite the team and the country behind the tam because this will not serve to instil anything positive on the team.”
Oliseh pointed out that Samuel Eto’o is a model pro and a living legend and a pride to not only Cameroon but the entire continent for his uncommon patriotism which has seen him play for more than a decade at the highest level, so he believes that Eto’o cannot be unpatriotic overnight.
“You don’t ban a Legend for seven games. He is the most decorated player on the continent. They are doing themselves a disservice. Eto’o is still one of the best strikers in the world despite his recent move to Russia.”
He added that “Eto’o gave them respect by coming for the hearing personally to present his case and this was a sign for commitment. Even if he is wrong, there are a lot of less dramatic options to resolve it and a heavy fine would have been in order.
“Over the years, it has been very well documented and it’s no secret that Eto’o has been motivating his teammates with financial and other incentives including offering to buy them expensive wrist-watches if they qualified for the World cup at a time when they were hard-pressed.
“African football needs Cameroon and all the big teams to put their house in order to be able to mount a serious challenge at the next world cup after the recent failures at Germany 2006 and South Africa 2010, made worse by their failure to even qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of nations.”
It would be recalled that the Nigeria Football Federation at the request of the Nigerian Sports Ministry banned several members of the Super eagles including then captain, Sunday Oliseh and vice-captain, Finidi George en-route the Korea-Japan 2002 World Cup after similar disagreements preceding and during the Mali 2002 Nations cup.
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What is eto'o charged with? Oliseh just de raise dust but no tell us what he is charged with. even Maradona was sacked. If he is guilty he should face the music, simple.
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Which ban? The Cameroon FA should be the one to be banned for LIFE!!! What has any African FA contributed to the football world only carting away our hard earned money into their private pockets!! Please Samuel Eto should be unbanned immediately. He is an African Legend not just Cameroon, he has made many Africans proud just like my dear JJ Okocha and Kalu Nwankwo! I do believe it is time we football world rise and do mass protest against all these FAs!!!
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Win a copy of UEFA – 50 Classic Matches on DVD (From This Is Lancashire)
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Win a copy of UEFA – 50 Classic Matches on DVD
9:00am Monday 28th May 2012 in Competitions
Highlights of 50 incredible matches spanning the entire history of the UEFA EURO
Since its inception fifty years ago the UEFA EURO has delivered many unbelievable matches – games packed with drama, great skill and wonderful goals that will live long in the memory of the spectator.
This fantastic series looks back through the archives and features fifty of the greatest clashes from the history of the tournament, including:
- France 3 – 2 Portugal, EURO 1984
- USSR 0 – 2 Holland, EURO 1988
- Holland 1 – 4 England, EURO 1996
- Spain 4 – 3 Yugoslavia, EURO 2000
- Portugal 2 – 3 Germany, EURO 2008
Each match is edited to thirty minutes of highlights. An opening montage sets the scene for the game and after the match footage a closing sequence will put the encounter into historical perspective.
These games encapsulate the passion, excitement and fabulous football that are at the heart of one of the most enthralling competitions in world football – the UEFA EURO. These landmark matches that are already etched in football folklore will make mesmeric viewing for football fans across the globe.
Newsquest Northwest has teamed up with PR Genie to promote their great competition. Enter now for your chance to win one of five copies of UEFA – 50 Classic Matches on DVD.
UEFA – 50 Classic Matches is an official UEFA production. Containing 10 discs packed with outstanding matches, incredible goals and the best players in the history of the EURO. Available on DVD from May 28, 2012 - RRP: £39.99.
HOW TO WIN!
To be in with a chance of winning, simply answer the following question and email (click here) your answer, together with your name, address and daytime contact telephone number (please mark UEFA in your subject line). Closing date is 9.00am on June 6, 2012. Usual Newsquest Northwest rules apply. See competition rules section for details. No purchase necessary.
Question: The Ukraine and which other European country will host Euro 2012?
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